The Lunchbox Review

A city. Two lonely people. Food. and letters. These loose strings are beautifully tied together in a gem of a story. A lonely housewife who has lots to tell but none to share with-she works endlessly to please an indifferent husband-she tries to please him with home-cooked food. But the dabba reached to one lonely old man who is amused by the food he gets everyday. To apologise for her mistake the housewife writes a letter and places it within the dabba-the man reads it and responds. They develop a bond-uncanny yet amusing.

What the story appears to be the story, is just the surface. What lies beneath is a haunting tale of human loneliness and the frustrating experience of mundane lives.Nimrat Kaur is splendid as the housewife in her antics,her simplicity and her actions. Irrfan Khan needs no new applause but this portrayal is haunting and touching at the same time. An unexpected plot progression with a dizzying ending,'The Lunchbox' is one of a kind