Movie Review: The Lunchbox
This award-winning, multi-national production of 2013 piques not just one’s romantic interest but also intrigues one. The Lunchbox is a tale of certainly lunches, but it is much more than that. The movie tells the tale of Ila Sehgal who wants to bring romance back into her marriage by possibly trying to cook delicious lunches for her husband. She sends the lunches through the famed dabbawala system of Mumbai. Due to a mix-up, her lunch instead gets delivered to the widower Saajan Fernandes, who is about to retire from his job as an accountant. Realizing the mistake, Sehgal sends a letter with the lunchbox to Fernandes. The exchange of letters starts of a friendship between them that eventually leads to much more. The tale here is not in the telling but in the portrayal of everyday events, in the life of the characters, through the epistolary mode. One gets to know of the simple and the complex thoughts of Sehgal and Fernandes through the...