The Lunchbox 2013

This film was very different from what I was expecting, first of all because it's an Indian film and you know what to expect from an Indian film. Always full of bright colors, happy dance sequences (or even sad dance sequences) and of course, lot of singing. The Lunchbox is nothing like that.

The Lunchbox is a romantic drama about two strangers that start writing to each other because of a mistake in the delivery service of lunchbox's in Mumbai (I didn't knew about the Dabbawalas and it's an absolutely amazing system!). A young house wife is connected with an older and solitary widower, the man that receives her husband's lunchbox, and through those letters they developed a very strong and affective bond.

The film has a melancholic atmosphere and it's very honest. The fact that it portrays ordinary lives gives it a truthful feeling about the situations that we are watching. The emotions are not exaggerated and the performances by the three leading actors are great.

Irrfan Khan (who played the older Pi, in Life of Pi) gives an absolutely amazing performance. We can feel all the emotions that he wants to transmit to us and he does not need to force anything. Nimrat Kaur is very natural and portrays very well a woman who is not happy in her marriage life anymore. Nawazuddin Siddiqui is the funny character of this story and he really lights the atmosphere and will make you laugh in most of his scenes.

The Lunchbox a good debut for the Indian director Ritesh Batra that is definitely influenced by the european cinema and did a good job also writing this love story. It is engaging and will be interested the whole time.