"The Lunchbox" is an elegy to the lost art of writing letters. In our high-tech world of the email, I-phones, and text messaging, we as a society have forgotten about the age-old pleasure of simply writing hand-written notes to one another.
"The Lunchbox" is an Indian film in a contemporary setting where working individuals can take part in a lunchbox delivery program. In it, workers will receive their lunches in boxes by a pre-assigned maker. Saajan's (Irrfan Khan) lunch is prepared by a young woman named Ila (Nimrat Kaur). Eventually they start leaving notes in the lunch box for one another. The notes start out with simple things such as how enjoyable the lunch was on a particular day. Soon the notes become more and more personal and a sort of relationship begins to blossom between the two people.
The film is directed by Ritesh Batra and is often funny and touching. The characters are likeable and the performers do a good job of bringing them to life. It offers a glimpse into contemporary India that Westerners don't see every day. It is, however, somewhat conventional and doesn't offer any ground-breaking revelations and it will bore some viewers who are accustomed to more action-oriented plots.
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