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Asia Cine-Club: The Lunchbox (2013, India)🗓 Tuesday, December 1 | ⏰ Doors: 6PM | 🎬 Film: 8PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
Ila (Nimrat Kaur) cooks her husband's lunch and sends it across Mumbai through the city's dabbawalas, a delivery system that almost never gets it wrong. This time it does. The box lands on the desk of Saajan (Irrfan Khan), a widowed accountant nearing retirement. He eats it, sends the empty tin back with a note, and the two of them start writing to each other.
Ritesh Batra's first feature won the Viewers' Choice award at Cannes Critics' Week in 2013 and picked up a BAFTA nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language. Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays Aslam Shaikh. Most of the film is people writing letters and cooking, and it holds you anyway.
"Batra brings out the humdrum of his characters' lives with little deft touches."
– Namrata Joshi, Outlook
"The greatest love stories are the ones that make you root for the protagonists to come together, despite their destinies."
– Rajeev Masand, CNN-IBN
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
📽 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2350496/
📽 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-lunchbox/
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TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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