Thread by @IWTKQuiz

#OnThisDay 8 years ago a wonderful tale of love, longing and loneliness was released that featured the late great Irrfan, @NimratOfficial and @Nawazuddin_S.

Our thread celebrating the movie. #8YearsOfTheLunchbox

Irrfan and Nimrat never met during the shooting of the film.

It was only during the promotions that they met for the first time.

This poster of The LunchBox is a nice tribute to the famous play Tumhari Amrita that starred Shabana Azmi and Farooq Shaikh.

Tumhari Amrita sees the characters communicate with each other through letters.

The film shows the Dabbawalas and the song that they sing. When it was screened at festivals the song the dabbawalas sang wasn't subtitled. When the director was asked why - he said that it was something sacred to them and it was their communication to their deity.

The food that Nawazuddin and Irfan eat in the movie was undercooked, unsalted and wasn't actually edible!

Nawazuddin Siddiqui copied a struggling actor's style and then that struggling actor found it difficult to clear auditions because casting agents thought he was copying what Nawazuddin had done in Lunchbox.

He won the best supporting actor for his portrayal of Shaikh.

Bharati Achrekar played the role of a housewife in the show 'Shrimati Sharma Na Kehti Thi' - She was the only character in the show and all other characters were present only as a voice.

In a reversal in Lunchbox she is the faceless voice of Deshpande Aunty, the woman above.

In order to cheer himself up, Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan) watches old DD shows to cheer him up such as Yeh Jo Hai Zindagi, Nukkad, Buniyaad.

This pic courtesy @sachdeva_pankaj

Did Ila and Saajan meet? Did they meet in Mumbai or in Bhutan? Guess we will never know and that's the beauty of the film.

Thank You to @riteshbatra for giving us this classic!