The Lunchbox

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It's raining today.

Don't play in the yard.

There will be plenty of mud.

If you slip, you shall hurt yourself.

- Play inside.

- Okay.

And don't walk under the trees.

A tree fell yesterday

a bridge collapsed,

it was on the news.

But it stopped raining.

It can resume.

Here it is.

Wait!

A minute!

Have you put all the spices?

No Auntie, I forgot one.

I knew it from the first whistle.

Take this.

Thank you, Auntie.

Just a pinch, no more.

Okay.

This new recipe will work for you.

Are you sure?

You doubt it,

but you'll see.

Yum... perfect!

A mouthful, and he will

build you a Taj Mahal.

The Taj Mahal is a tomb.

I know!

Retrieves them.

Fernandes.

I present you Shaikh.

Shaikh, Mr Fernandes.

He was chief accountant

in a small Saudi company.

He will take your notes to your departure

in one month.

He has very good references.

Delighted.

Mr. Shroff filled you with praise.

I did come early to meet you.

Good luck.

Mr. Shroff said for 35 years

you're here.

Your colleagues will miss you.

What does it do?

This is the beginning of your golden age,

how do you feel?

Beautifully.

Awesome!

Can we start training?

Of course.

But it's lunchtime.

Return at 4.45.

Well, anytime.

Thank you!

Today

the recipe for one of my favorite dishes:

"Paneer pyaza do."

Auntie!

- Are you sleeping?

- What happened?

The lunchbox is back.

And?

It is empty.

Really?

Completely!

It all sauced!

What did I tell you?

And this is just the beginning!

Stop the tape, Rajeev is back.

Okay.

You're home early, all well?

Did you like your lunch?

It was good.

Well... nothing else?

As everyday.

The lunchbox was empty,

then I thought...

Cauliflower was very good.

It was very good.

I just got back.

I was expecting your call.

It was so boring?

I left early too.

Any problem, sir?

I am retiring in a month.

I would like to stop delivery service.

Okay, I will take note.

I will pay you at the end of the month.

No problem.

And... who cooked today?

We did, why?

It was good!

- What?

- It was very good.

Continue like this.

What happened to him?

Cauliflower did the trick.

Let's do it again tomorrow.

Pass this.

What is this?

Mr. Fernandes, our ball fell inside

the balcony Please can we have it?

Please Sir!

- Do I look like your servant?

- No.

We will not play here.

We'll play on the other side.

If you play in front of this door again

I will chase you down the street.

Please!

We'll play on the other side.

I'm here, Auntie.

You called me just now?

Yes.

I was changing diapers of Tonton.

What did Rajeev say?

Nothing.

What?

The lunchbox was delivered to someone else.

I don't think Rajeev received it.

Someone else liked it and ate the meal.

No no, impossible.

Delivery guys don't make mistakes.

What happened?

Hello, how are you?

Good morning.

When I returned,

you were not there.

- You were late.

- I came to 16 h 45 accurate.

I was there, you were late.

No problem.

These are the claims?

It is the claims service here.

When do we start my training?

Let's go.

Now?

After lunch.

- I'll be back after then?

- Yes, come.

- Are you sure?

- Yes.

You will be right there?

Thank you.

Thank you for emptying

the lunchbox yesterday.

I cooked it for my husband.

Seeing the empty box,

I thought he would tell me

something about it.

I thought, for few hours

that to seduce the heart,

stomach must be satisfied first.

In return for those hours

today I'm sending you paneer.

Favorite dish of my husband.

Ila.

Auntie, isn't it weird to write this?

Ila, you should thank him.

And what if Rajeev gets it?

That's even better.

He ate someone else's food and

he didn't even notice.

He would know today.

Should I write anything else?

No, keep it short!

Auntie, are you asleep?

What?

The lunchbox is back.

Empty, but With a reply to the letter.

- A reply?

- Yes.

Read it to me.

This is not Rajeev's handwriting.

And what does it say?

"Dear Ila. Food

was very salty today."

And what else?

"Dear Ila. Food

was very salty today."

What? No "thank you", nothing else?

"Dear Ila. Food

was very salty today."

What kind of moron eats food for free

and then complains about it?

Hold on a minute.

Here, put these in.

No, all this doesn't seem right to me.

I will talk to the driver

about this wrong delivery.

No, he should've thanked you.

No no, I really don't like it.

Why? He's not anyone you know,

why do you care?

Good morning. How are you?

Good.

You were not at your desk,

so I came here.

You were reading in the canteen,

I didn't want to bother you.

Your meal exhales a delicious aroma.

I tasted the food

just by smelling it!

Your wife...

has magic in her hands.

My wife is dead.

Dear Ila,

the salt was fine today.

The chilly was a bit on a higher side.

But I had two bananas after lunch, they

help to extinguish the fire in my mouth.

And I think it also will be

good for the motions.

So many people in the city

eat only a banana or two for lunch.

It's cheap and it fills you.

Hello.

My husband came home late last night.

He did not say a word.

This morning, he went to work,

and my daughter to school.

And I cooked with Auntie Deshpande.

Auntie Deshpande is our upstairs neighbor.

Her husband is in a

coma for the past 15 years.

One day he woke up

and began to stare at the fan.

From that day he doesn't

see anything else.

He only looks up to the fan

and falls asleep at night.

Upon awakening, he goes back staring at it.

He says nothing.

For 15 years.

Even doctors have lost all hope.

It's an old model Orient fan.

It never stops.

Auntie thinks, it keeps him alive.

One day, there was

a power outage.

The fan stopped

and his pulse slowed.

Fortunately, the electricity came back.

Since Auntie installed a generator.

Her husband continues

to stare at the fan.

And mine stuck with his phone.

As if nothing else exists.

This might be true,

there is really nothing else.

What do we live for?

Dear Ila,

Your husband sounds like a busy man.

Life is very busy these days.

There are too many people,

and everyone wants

what the other has.

Years ago, you could find a place

to sit in the train every now and then,

but these days, it's difficult.

If Mr. Deshpande wakes up now,

he will see the difference and probably

go back to his ceiling fan.

When my wife died,

she got a horizontal burial cot.

I tried to buy a burial cot for

myself the other day,

and what they offered

me was a vertical one.

I've spent my whole life

standing in trains and buses,

now I'll even have to

stand when I'm dead! .

Why don't you

have another child?

Sometimes having a child

can help a marriage.

Rajeev?

What do you say?

It's pretty.

You forgot?

Rajeev, I wore it

on our honeymoon.

Today I thought to try it,

if it needed alterations.

But it suits me very well,

- Right?

- Yes.

It is a little wide.

Yes...

On our honeymoon, we didn't know

Yashvi will born.

We didn't know for a while.

Two months!

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