Dabba/The Lunchbox (Reviews perhaps with minor Spoilers)
Dec 11, 2013 21:36:05 GMT
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Post by moot on Dec 11, 2013 21:36:05 GMT
Off to the Kino to see Dabba tonight.
Dabba is what a delivered lunch is served in in Mumbai. Famously delivered all over the city by people who make very few mistakes. Often held up as a shining example of Excellence in Service Delivery by Management In 1st World Companies keen to pay people exactly the same amount of money...
Opinions expressed in this review do not accurately reflect the public views of management anywhere. (Except they do).
Irrfan Khan is Saajan Fernandes, an elderly (but he doesn't look it), widowed accountant almost looking forward to retiring in a month. He's not that sure about having to train up his replacement Shaikh (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) though.
Anyway the Dabbawallas of Mumbai make a mistake (no doubt followed by a full delivery retrospective and perhaps Excellence In Service training for those "responsible"), and Sajaan ends up with a delicious lunch intended for Ila's husband, Rajiv. Sajaan can't believe his luck and wolfs the lot down.
Rajiv gets Sajaan's lunch which was Aloo Ghobi (Potatoes & Cauliflower).
Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is delighted when the apparently licked clean Dabba is returned and hopes that perhaps this might rekindle the passion that is missing from her marriage. Alas her husband is not interested. Mentions that he quite liked the Aloo Ghobi though.
Ila realises that the lunch she cooked has gone to someone else and so, on the advice of a neighbour she includes a note with the next lunch along the lines of "the lunch yesterday was meant for my husband, I'm glad you enjoyed it though".
The mistake is repeated and Sajaan gets the lovely lunch again and the note.
He feels compelled to reply and writes her a note: "It was quite nice but very salty".
Ila tells the neighbour upstairs who is furious that there was no "Thank you". She makes a serving suggestion with which Ila reluctantly complies.
Ila gets a note the next day that reads "Salt was perfect. Although the chillis were a bit strong. Had to go and eat 2 bananas just to take the fire away".
And from there a love story builds through notes sent and received...
Well paced, funny and almost guaranteed to make you hungry, I can recommend this. It loses its way a little toward the end but still well worth it. There are some really nice touches like the segue from a song being sung tunelessly on the train to the actual song from a film soundtrack.
I'm up for the sequel - From Bandra to Bhutan.
7 out of 10.
(A 1000 apologies if I've got this in the wrong place or there is already a thread or, or, or... first film in ages and the first one I've wanted to talk about.)
Dabba is what a delivered lunch is served in in Mumbai. Famously delivered all over the city by people who make very few mistakes. Often held up as a shining example of Excellence in Service Delivery by Management In 1st World Companies keen to pay people exactly the same amount of money...
Opinions expressed in this review do not accurately reflect the public views of management anywhere. (Except they do).
Irrfan Khan is Saajan Fernandes, an elderly (but he doesn't look it), widowed accountant almost looking forward to retiring in a month. He's not that sure about having to train up his replacement Shaikh (Nawazuddin Siddiqui) though.
Anyway the Dabbawallas of Mumbai make a mistake (no doubt followed by a full delivery retrospective and perhaps Excellence In Service training for those "responsible"), and Sajaan ends up with a delicious lunch intended for Ila's husband, Rajiv. Sajaan can't believe his luck and wolfs the lot down.
Rajiv gets Sajaan's lunch which was Aloo Ghobi (Potatoes & Cauliflower).
Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is delighted when the apparently licked clean Dabba is returned and hopes that perhaps this might rekindle the passion that is missing from her marriage. Alas her husband is not interested. Mentions that he quite liked the Aloo Ghobi though.
Ila realises that the lunch she cooked has gone to someone else and so, on the advice of a neighbour she includes a note with the next lunch along the lines of "the lunch yesterday was meant for my husband, I'm glad you enjoyed it though".
The mistake is repeated and Sajaan gets the lovely lunch again and the note.
He feels compelled to reply and writes her a note: "It was quite nice but very salty".
Ila tells the neighbour upstairs who is furious that there was no "Thank you". She makes a serving suggestion with which Ila reluctantly complies.
Ila gets a note the next day that reads "Salt was perfect. Although the chillis were a bit strong. Had to go and eat 2 bananas just to take the fire away".
And from there a love story builds through notes sent and received...
Well paced, funny and almost guaranteed to make you hungry, I can recommend this. It loses its way a little toward the end but still well worth it. There are some really nice touches like the segue from a song being sung tunelessly on the train to the actual song from a film soundtrack.
I'm up for the sequel - From Bandra to Bhutan.
7 out of 10.
(A 1000 apologies if I've got this in the wrong place or there is already a thread or, or, or... first film in ages and the first one I've wanted to talk about.)