The Lunchbox (2013)

Name: The Lunchbox
Released: 2013-09-20
Duration: 104 min

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Director: Ritesh Batra
Runtime: 104 minutes
Original release date: 2013-09-20 (TMDB; may differ from the UK release)

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

London screenings

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9 November 2026 at 14:30 · Rio Cinema, 107 Kingsland High Street, London, E8 2PB, UK · The Lunchbox · standard · subtitled · Book with the cinema
10 November 2026 at 19:30 · Farr's Dalston, 17-19 Dalston Lane, London, E8 3DF, UK · The Lunchbox · standard · subtitled · Book with the cinema