The Lunchbox
- Release Date
- September 20, 2013
- Director
- Ritesh Batra
- Cast
- Irrfan Khan , Nimrat Kaur , Nowaz , Denzil Smith , Bharati Achrekar , Nakul Vaid
- Runtime
- 104
- Main Genre
- Drama
- Writers
- Ritesh Batra , Rutvik Oza
- Tagline
- Can You Fall In Love With Someone You Have Never Met?
Summary
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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