![]() ![]() Sajaan replies: "Dear Ila, your husband sounds like a busy man." And soon the notes between them turn into a conversation of sorts. So she sends a note with the next lunch, thanking whoever did receive it for paying her the great compliment of sending it back empty, and telling him she enjoyed believing for a few short hours that the way to her husband's heart really was through his stomach. When the tiffin comes back empty, but her own spouse doesn't say a word about the meal, Ila realizes he never got it. ![]() The idea is to get it to her husband's office hot, and he's already at work. The opening sequence shows Ila (Nimrat Kaur) packing a home-cooked meal into a tower of metal containers called a tiffin, then putting this "lunchbox" into an insulated cloth bag. We're in Mumbai, India's commercial capital, where a middle-aged man is about to get a very tasty surprise at work: A devoted young wife - not his - has packed her husband's daily lunchbox with an amazing-looking Indian meal, and sent it to him by way of an only-conceivable-in-India delivery service. ![]() But there are smaller Indian films, too, and one that has earned international acclaim at film festivals is opening tomorrow in major U.S. When people talk about Bollywood movies, they usually mean Indian romances with extravagant musical numbers. With Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur, Nawazuddin Siddiqui Rated PG for thematic material and smoking
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