THE LUNCHBOX A Film by Ritesh Batra Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2013 – Critics’ Week Toronto International Film Festival 2013 104 mins East Coast Publicity West Coast Publicity Distributor Hook Publicity Block Korenbrot Sony Pictures Classics Jessica Uzzan Tami Kim Carmelo Pirrone Luke Carron Ziggy Kozlowski Alison Farber 419 Lafayette St. 2nd Fl 6100 Wilshire Blvd., 550 Madison Ave New York, NY 10003 Ste. 170 New York, NY 10022 646-867-3818 tel Los Angeles, CA 90048 212-833-8833 tel
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[email protected] 323-634-7030 fax 1 SYNOPSIS Middle class housewife Ila is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan, a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self and find an anchor to hold on to in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes and dreams.