The Lunchbox
Director:
Ritesh Batra
Every day thousands of wallahs, deliverymen, deliver lunchboxes with hot meals prepared by housewives to their hard-working husbands. Almost never a lunchbox arrives at the wrong address, but now it happens and Saajan, a lonely man in the dusk of his life, receives the food made by Ila, a housewife. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Festivals
Cannes 2013 (Semaine de la critique), Dubai 2013, Ghent 2013, Reykjavik 2013, Sao Paolo 2013
Awards
Muhr AsiaAfrica Award for Best Actor (Irrfan Khan) - Dubai 2013, Audience Award - Ghent 2013, /The Church of Island Award (Special Mention) - Reykjavik 2013
