As such, it lacks the usual song and dance numbers you find in most Indian films and is only a little over an hour and a half (most Indian films are considerably longer-often twice as long or longer). While it was directed and written by an Indian, Ritesh Batra, and stars Indian actors (Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur), it is also a French/German co-production. And, as far as realism goes, this Indian film is not typical of a Bollywood flick either. Plus, a 'Hollywoodized' ending would have been far less realistic. This might upset some viewers, but it shouldn't-it's still a very good movie.
#Funny lunch box notes for husband movie#
Now I am NOT complaining-but Hollywood films seem to have an implicit understanding that everything must be resolved perfectly before a movie can end. There is a lot of sadness and longing and the film leaves you with this, as it's not afraid to leave the audience slightly dissatisfied. Part of it, too, is that the film does NOT have a perfect happy ending and it doesn't follow a typical formula. Part of it is, of course, because there is no comparable lunch system in the States. Dabba is the sort of film Hollywood could never make. All during this long exchange of letters, the woman CONTINUES sending lunches to this stranger and they forge an odd friendship! There's far more to the film than this-see it yourself and you'll see what I mean. Later, they become much more complicated, as by now the wife has realized that her husband has been cheating-and this total stranger becomes her confidante. At first, they are quite simple and formal. At first, the man doesn't realize he's eating another man's lunch-he just thinks the restaurant that delivers his lunch box has suddenly improved! However, once the wife realizes her mistake, she sends the next meal along with a note explaining the mix-up-and soon the pair begin exchanging letters. Despite this being a logistical nightmare, the meals get delivered to the right person all the time with very, very few mistakes-carried by hand and on bicycles and scooters by mostly illiterate men! With the movie Dabba, a mistake amazingly happens and a wife's meal arrives for a total stranger instead of her husband. Then, after lunch, they collect all the empty lunch pails and deliver them to the wives. Their job is to arrive at the homes of Indian workers to get homemade lunches from the wives and transport them all over the city so that the men can have hot, home-cooked meals every day. In Mumbai (formerly 'Bombay'), India, there is a very complex network of 5000 Dabbawallahs. As The Lunchbox demonstrates, there is just the train and the journey, and it's all perfect. Though the wrong train may indeed bring you to the right station, ultimately there is no wrong train and no right station. Impeccably acted and beautifully realized, the film provides an honest appreciation of what it is like to live in Mumbai without exploiting its poverty for Western audiences. While the ending may thwart expectations if you are used to having all the pieces neatly fit together, The Lunchbox mixes food and romance in a very appealing combination, removing any doubt that Ila and Sajaan have moved to a new level.
Both Aslam and Sajaan become more endearing, however, as the film progresses. A subplot involving Aslam Shaikh (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), an aggressively upbeat successor to Sajaan, adds a touch of humor to the proceedings but also serves to draw a contrast between himself and the grumpy Saajan.
#Funny lunch box notes for husband series#
What begins with a short note from Sajaan to Ila that "the food was salty today" develops into a series of exchanges passed back and forth in the lunchbox everyday in which the two open up to each other about their lives, memories, and their hopes and dreams for the future. When it is wrongly delivered to Saajan (Irrfan Khan, Life of Pi), however, a series of unintended consequences unfold. Deshpande (Bharati Achreka), Ila tries to have her husband notice her by putting more spice in the food.
On the advice of her upstairs Auntie, Mrs. Written by Stefan Tomke in the mode of You Got Mail, Ila (Nimrat Kaur), a young housewife dutifully prepares a lunch for her emotionally distant husband every day and has it sent to him via the courier. It works out well even though, in reality, with about 5,000 dabbawalas in the city of Mumbai who deliver more than 130,000 lunch boxes each day, they rarely make a mistake.
In this case, however, the train turns out to be a dabba (lunchbox), wrongly delivered by a dabbawala to a middle-aged government claims adjuster on the brink of retirement. An old saying repeated in Ritesh Batra's charming The Lunchbox is that sometimes the wrong train will bring you to the right station.
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