The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra, 2013)

In Mumbai, Saajan, a widowed office worker about to retire finds that his daily workplace lunch has started coming from someone else's wife, misdirected by the delivery company. They begin to exchange messages through the lunchboxes and a tentative relationship forms gradually between them, as they share more details about their lives in their letters.
The overall mood remains wistful, despite some levity introduced by the interaction between Saajan and his less than competent replacement-to-be. Without being railroaded into it, it becomes easy to root for the innocent romance to blossom and at the same time feel relief when the pat resolutions so common to the romantic drama genre are sidestepped. It's just a simple story of lifelike people, delicately acted and directed and serves as a reminder that there is very much an Indian cinema beyond Bollywood bombast.

7/10