
Slumdog Millionaire(2008)
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".


“Can you fall in love with someone you have never met?”
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.

Irrfan Khan
Saajan Fernandes

Nimrat Kaur
Ila

Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Shaikh

Lillete Dubey
Ila's Mother

Nasirr Khan
Ila's Father

Bharati Achrekar
Mrs. Khrishnan
Nakul Vaid
Rajeev
Yashvi Punneet Nagar
Yashvi

Denzil Smith
Mr. Shroff
Shruti Bapna
Meherunissa
The Lunchbox is a drama, romance film released in 2013 exploring themes of housewife, mumbai (bombay), india, food, tiffin, gastronomia, indian cuisine. Directed by Ritesh Batra, it stars Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui. 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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