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Lunch Box (PG)(Some subtitles)2014 Directed by Ritesh Batra

An error in delivering a lunchbox leads to a housewife’s lunch for her husband going to a lonely accountant on the verge of retirement and the pair begin to correspond.   This leads to changes in both their lives.

Set against the colourful backdrop of 21st century Mumbai, this slow-burning romance is sheer unadulterated pleasure.

  

One of Mumbai's miracles is the lunchbox delivery phenomenon. Mumbai's Dabbawallahs are a community of 5000 dabba (lunchbox) deliverymen. It is a hereditary profession. Every morning the Dabbawallahs deliver hot meals from the kitchens of housewives to the offices of their husbands, and then return the empty lunchboxes back to the homes in the afternoon.