From the time it was screened at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, The Lunchbox had a dream run, becoming a global box-office success and a darling of critics across the world. The movie was feted at a host of festivals and received a BAFTA nomination in the best foreign film category in 2015. Writer-director Ritesh Batra’s story revolved around Saajan (Irrfan Khan), a reclusive middle-aged office-goer, and Ila (Nimrat Kaur), a disenchanted housewife. One day, a meal-box prepared by Ila for her husband accidentally ends up with Saajan and the pair begin to exchange notes. Their communication, obligatory at first, blossoms into a tentative romance. Saajan and Ila’s love story was rooted in the mundane realism of Mumbai’s frustrating chaos and isolation, for which the…