Hello everyone,
Hope you are enjoying Labor day.
For this Wednesday, we are showing an Indian movie "Dabba (The
Lunchbox)", directed by Ritesh Batra
(more details below).
Please feel free to pass the message around and
invite your friends. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Dabba (The Lunchbox)
Date and Time: September 3, Wednesday, 6:30-9
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Ritesh Batra
Partial List of Characters:
Irrfan Khan
Nimrat Kaur
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
Lillete Dubey
Nakul Vaid
Bharati Achrekar
US Rating: PG
Language: Hindi (with English subtitles) and English
Length: 104 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: (via www.imdb.com)
"A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient
lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife
to an older man in the dusk of his life as they
build a fantasy world together through notes in the
lunchbox."
My Comments:
A slow, relaxed movie, wonderfully acted by the two
main lead. I think it focuses on two lives that
are respectively "on hold" with their regrets and
sadness until they get a chance to exchange stories
about their conditions to each other, which later
leads towards some actions (and also inaction)
in the end.
Although it could be seen as a romance movie, I think
it focuses more on potential traps that relative
comfort often leads to, whilst aging continues on.
My slight complain might actually be that Irfan Khan,
although doing very good acting, is a little
too agile for his role as a retiring office worker (or
perhaps my stereotyping have misled me once again).
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