With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey.
Indian lunch box delivery system.
India s commercial capital is a teeming metropolis of nearly 20 million boasting a sparkling international air terminal and a sleek new metro system swanky furniture stores and bollywood starlets.
These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles.
The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife.
A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box.
Gautam singh ap.
The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man.
Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong.
Tiffins in the wild.
And business is growing at a steady rate of 5 10 a year.
Lunch boxes are marked in several ways.
د ب ه while wala is an agentive suffix denoting a doer or holder of the preceding word.
And no better example of this.
This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah.
Ny times the code explained.
The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai.
Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients.
A mistaken delivery in mumbai s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Directed by ritesh batra.