The Lunch box was screened at Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, The Lunch box was released in theatres in India on 20 September 2013.
Plot
Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is a young housewife seeking the attention of her husband, Rajeev (Nakul Vaid), and searching for ways to bring the romance back into her marriage; one of her ideas is to cook delicious lunches for him. Through a rare mix-up of the dabbawalas (a complicated food delivery system in Mumbai that picks up and delivers lunches from restaurants or homes to people at work), the tiffin carrier (lunchbox) Ila prepares for her husband gets accidentally delivered, instead, to Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan Khan), a middle-aged widower who is about to retire from his job of an accountant. Ila eventually realises the mistake and with the advice of her neighbour aunt, Mrs. Deshpande (Bharti Achrekar - voice only), living in the apartment above her, writes a letter to Saajan about the mix-up and places it in the lunchbox (along with her husband's favourite meal) the next day. An exchange of letters sent back and forth with the lunches ignites a friendship between the two, as they share memories and events from their own lives.
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Cast
Irrfan Khan as Saajan Fernandes
Nimrat Kaur as Ila Singh
Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Aslam Shaikh, Saajan's colleague
Lillete Dubey as Ila's mother
Nakul Vaid as Rajeev Singh, Ila's husband
Bharati Achrekar as Mrs. Deshpande a.k.a. "Auntie", Ila's neighbour (voice only)
Yashvi Puneet Nagar as Yashvi Singh, Ila & Rajeev's daughter
Denzil Smith as Mr. Shroff, Saajan's office boss
Shruti Bapna as Mehrunissa, Shaikh's wife
Box office
The Lunchbox grossed ₹71 million in its first weekend of release in India, and ₹110 million in its first week. The film continued to gross significant amounts over the next few weeks, earning over ₹200 million in the first three weeks and another estimated ₹40–50 lakhs on its fourth weekend.
