Ranked #66 of 100
The Lunchbox
द लंचबॉक्स · 2013
A misdelivered dabba starts a correspondence between a lonely widower and a wife her husband no longer notices.
- Director
- Ritesh Batra
- Year
- 2013
- Genre
- Romance · Drama
- Cast
- Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Why it's at number 66
Won the Critics Week Viewers Choice at Cannes. Restraint as a love language.
A misdelivered dabba starts a correspondence between a lonely widower and a wife her husband no longer notices.
The Lunchbox sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ritesh Batra — also responsible for Photograph.
- Released in 2013, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Romance, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — The Lunchbox (2013) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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