2013 · drama · romance
The Lunchbox
Directed by Ritesh Batra1h 44m2013
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.
Our read: The Lunchbox (2013) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- measured
- tender
- intimate
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