Lunch Box With Love (2013)

Documentary, Video


Dabawala tiffin image

A short documentary that explores tiffin delivery service in Mumbai that originated in India under British rule. These dabbawala bring home cooked tiffin to the workplace. Today the city’s 5,000 tiffin-wallahs deliver 200,000 tiffin-boxes filled with home-cooked food each day. Forbes Magazine found its reliability to be that of a six sigma standard. The rating means that the dabbawalas have a 99.9% efficiency rate.

DIRECTOR: Parag Sankhe

PRODUCER: Simon Cousin