Saajan (Irrfan Khan) a Mumbai office worker nearing retirement is delivered the wrong lunch by a dabbawala. Young housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) had intended it for her emotionally indifferent husband. To Saajan's surprise the food is a vast improvement on his usual meal. When he finds a note from Ila enclosed with another meal he decides to write back. So begins Ritesh Batra's exquisite comedy-drama.
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Hindi romantic drama directed by Ritesh Batra and starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur. Khan plays Saajan, a widowed Indian accounts clerk approaching retirement, who mistakenly receives a lunch box through Mumbai's daily delivery service. The lunch box was intended for the indifferent husband of lonely housewife Ila (Kaur) and Saajan sends back a note to state the mistake but thank her for the food regardless. However, his love for her food comes as a surprise to Ila, who is more accustomed to her thankless husband, and she decides to keep sending the lunch box for Saajan. The two begin exchanging notes and soon they reveal more to each other through their correspondence than they would to anyone else...
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