Film · 2013
The Lunchbox
Directed by Ritesh Batra
1h 44mIndia, France, Germany, United StatesHindi
Can you fall in love with someone you have never met?
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
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Cast & crew
- Irrfan KhanSaajan Fernandes
- Nimrat KaurIla
- Nawazuddin SiddiquiShaikh
- Lillete DubeyIla's Mother
- Nasir KhanIla's Father
- Bharati AchrekarMrs. Khrishnan
- Nakul VaidRajeev
- Yashvi Punneet NagarYashvi
- Denzil SmithMr. Shroff
- Shruti BapnaMeherunissa
- Lokesh RaiDukes Owner
- Vidhya DharOld Man in Train
- Sadashiv Kondaji PokarkarDabbawallah at Ila's House
- Aarti RathodSaajan's Neighbor
- Krishna BaiToothless Woman
- Raj Rishi MoreIla's Brother
- Santosh Kumar ChaurasiyaAutorickshaw Driver
- Swapnil ShiriraoDukes Waiter
- Avijit KhanwilkarYoung Man in Train
- Aakash SinhaAutorickshaw 2
- Directed by
- Ritesh Batra
- Written by
- Ritesh Batra
- Music
- Max Richter
- Produced by
- Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap & Guneet Monga
- Cinematography
- Michael Simmonds
- Editing
- John F. Lyons