The Lunchbox

The Lunchbox

Can you fall in love with someone you have never met?

2013104 min7.4 / 10

A tender, melancholic romance built entirely on written words and imagination between two strangers separated by circumstance, exploring how fantasy and reality collide.

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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