The background of the story is Mumbai. Mumbai is known as the "Shanghai of India", a city of 25 million people. With such a large population, people often commute by train and bus. Even so, there are still 200,000 people in this city who can eat hot meals from home. This is mainly due to the 125-year-old Indian food delivery system - dabbawala.
The concept of "dabbawala" began in British India. Many Britons who came to the colonies did not like local food, so a service that brought lunch directly from their home to work came into being, which remains the main The customer group has become the group of commercial buildings.
What is especially amazing is that Dabbawala, who has a low level of education, keeps the error rate at one in eight million during high-speed operation, that is, the accuracy of food delivery is 99.999999%, And all of this is achieved without any advanced technology, but with a set of simple symbols and the meticulous and close cooperation of Dabbawalas. Harvard Business School has specially studied it in the form of case studies
. The unfolding is that in the 1 in 8 million error rate, such a small probability event connects two strangers.
Ina's life is like an abandoned woman. And Fernandez's wife has been dead for many years, and there is still a short period of time. I was about to retire at the time of my life. The original plan for my life was to go to Nashik, which was specially prepared for retirees.
The two met because of the wrong lunch box. The two never really saw each other from beginning to end.
In their correspondence, there are multiple references to death, Aunt Deshpande's husband, Ina's father, Fernandez's wife, an orphan without parents Sheikh, and the most ordinary young woman who jumped from the roof with her daughter in the most ordinary day.
Death does not mean the end, there is still a hope of trying to live in the undercurrent. In Yina's food She has a longing for life and a longing for the future life. The future she hopes is to live with her daughter in Bhutan at the foot of the Himalayas.
Aunt Desh has been caring for her husband who has had a stroke for the past 15 years, but she remains optimistic about life, trying new recipes and recording her favorite movies.
Her mother has been taking care of her sick father. When her father died, her mother said, "I was very afraid that he would not be alive, but I didn't expect that the first feeling was that I was hungry."
There is hope and solace in the food. Living around Fernandis is his successor, Sheikh. An orphan with an inexplicable optimism, he likes to prepare ingredients on the commuter train so he can make it when he gets home. A chopping board is a folder in the hand.
Everyone's longing is quiet, like the slow pace in this movie. It exists in everyone's heart and becomes a space in which new hope is constantly discovered. So at the end of the movie, the dabbawalas on the train sang, saying that no matter how hard the day is, you can still sing.
These lives are full of death, and people with the desire for life surging in their hearts mix this kind of hope in every connection with food, and the people who eat it seem to sense it, so Yina no longer hesitates to bring The daughter ran away resolutely, and Fernandis also got off the train to Nashik to find Yina. It seemed that their lives had just begun, like a rebirth, like a new life.
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