The Lunchbox (2013)

An accidentally delivered lunch leads to exchanged notes, and those notes make ordinary loneliness absorbing. The two correspondents reveal themselves through meals, working routines and small admissions rather than sparkling first-date patter. Irrfan Khan's guarded stillness is especially rewarding if you prefer affection that has to find a way through habit. It is a patient, bittersweet connection with an uncertain horizon, not a neat fantasy in which another person instantly repairs a life.