"Lunchbox" movie is more than just a plain love story. Internet and social media have taken over us but this movie shows the lives of two people whose life is not invaded by the new media. It's a well knit story that you will enjoy watching and it even takes us back to the times people used the postal services or exchanged chits regularly

 

Irrfan Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui take it to another level with one of the best performances of their careers. Irrfan's straight-faced; dead-pan look with restrained performance breathes life into his character while Nawazuddin as the hearty and talkative colleague proves to a complete antithesis to Saajan Fernandes. Lesser known newbie Nimrat Kaur delivers an impressive performance as the middle-class wife staying in a small apartment in Malad East.

 

Cast: Irrfan khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqueui, Nimrat Kaur, Sanjeev Kapoor  

DVD Features:Dolby Digital 5.1,Anamorphic WideScreen,NTSC All Regions, English Subtitles

Director: Ritesh Batra

Producers: Arun Rangachari,Anurag Kashyap,Guneet Monga

Music Director: Max Richter

 

Neglected housewife and caring mother Ila (Nimrat Kaur), determined to spice up her loveless marriage, heeds the advice of a well-meaning Aunty in the flat upstairs (a terrific Bharati Achrekar, heard but never seen) and whips up a killer meal for her husband. But as luck would have it, a rare error in Mumbai's famously efficient dabbawala service results in the tiffin landing up at the desk of a grumpy accountant on the verge of retirement, a widower named Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan Khan). 

 

On realizing that her lovingly prepared meal was eaten by someone else, Ila encloses a note in the steel lunchbox the following day. Saajan writes back and this pair of strangers begins a tentative friendship through routinely exchanged letters, sharing with each other their dreams, their memories of loved ones snatched away, and their empty lives.