The Lunchbox Becomes #1 Hindi Film of 2014 in North America with $1.45 Million

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thelunchboxriteshbatrainterview1Ritesh Batra’s award-winning drama THE LUNCHBOX has now become the highest-grossing Hindi film of 2014 in North America. The Irrfan Khan hit has grossed $1.45 million to date surpassing the $1.3 million grossed by both Salman Khan’s latest action picture Jai Ho and the sleeper hit Queen to set a new record for this year.

Now going into its seventh weekend of release in the US from Sony Pictures Classics, THE LUNCHBOX continues to add more theaters each week and is currently playing in 129 locations with its total sales still rising rapidly. It is also the only Hindi film of 2014 to reach the nationwide Top 20 box office chart having done so in each of the last two weekends.

We here at Bollyspice loved the film! Check out our review here!

Film critics all over the US have been raving about THE LUNCHBOX. Check out reviews from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal:

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SYNOPSIS:

Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is a young middle class Mumbai housewife trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that this new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan (Irrfan Khan), a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery.

This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears, and even small joys. They each discover a new sense of self and find an anchor to hold on to in the big city of Mumbai that so often crushes hopes and dreams. Still strangers physically, Ila and Saajan become lost in a virtual relationship that could jeopardize both their realities.

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