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Edgy MD Sep 19 2014 09:53 AM

A Mumbai housewife packs lunches for her emotionally distant husband, and has them delivered to him at work. An inexplicable mixup occurs, and lunches begin landing at the desk of a lonely widower on the verge of early retirement, while her clueless husband receives the third-rate luncheonette fare the widower is used to. As the housewife and the widower accountant realize the mistake, they begin writing short notes to each other, delivered in the lunchbox, and the story unfolds in epistolary form, as their conversation grows from naan to the dramatic developmental (but alienating) changes in India, to the disappointments in their lives. I think the widower guy is played by the same actor who was Kal Penn's father in The Namesake, and he's good, but like in that movie, he doesn't seem as old as he's supposed to be playing. [fimg=450]http://www.mybikemyworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/lunchbox-movie-poster.jpg[/fimg]

sharpie Sep 19 2014 02:10 PM Re: The Lunchbox (2013)

Watched it on an airplane. It was OK. That actor you refer to, Irrfan Khan, is 47, and yes too young for that role and too young for his role in THE NAMESAKE which what released 8 years earlier. He has also been in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and THE LIFE OF PI. In other words, he is in every Indian movie that gets a major US release.

Mets – Willets Point Sep 19 2014 03:15 PM Re: The Lunchbox (2013)

He's the Indian Colm Meaney!