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New Pockets of Opportunity

In: India Reloaded

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  • Dheeraj Sinha

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The Lunchbox is a 2013 Bollywood film that would typically receive critical acclaim in India, but no commercial success. The film is about a romance through love letters, between a lonely accountant about to retire from his job (played by Irrfan Khan) and a young married woman seeking her husband’s attention (played by Nirmrat Kaur). The story begins when the lunchbox she prepares for her husband, along with her letter of love, lands up at the desk of the accountant by mistake. The movie also features the famous dabbawallahs of Mumbai — a network of people who pick up lunch boxes from restaurants or homes and deliver them to the men at work. It’s because of their mix-up that the lunchbox lands up at the accountant’s desk every day and acts as the two-way carrier of the love letters, as the relationship develops.

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  • Dheeraj Sinha, 2015. "New Pockets of Opportunity," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: India Reloaded, chapter 0, pages 136-151, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36710-5_10
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137367105_10
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