Wrong train takes you to the right station

Gennaro 2021-12-28 08:01:34

It's a small fresh story in an Indian context. What is more surprising is that no clear ending is given in the end. The overall feeling is pretty good.

The paper records are as follows:

Background: Saajan Fernandes is a clerk who is about to retire, and his wife died alone. It all started with the wrong lunch box. He has been eating lunch made by the housewife ila, whose husband cheated and only depended on his daughter. The two later communicated through a note in the lunch box they had sent the wrong way.

Important supporting role: Auntie, who ila has never played, takes care of her paralyzed uncle, and communicates with ila through baskets and shouts upstairs. Saajan's intern, Shaikh, is an orphan. At first he was ugly, but later he was cute.

1. We first saw that ila was preparing lunch, communicating with auntie, and then delivering the meal. Saajan had lunch. One detail here is that he is not very good at opening lunch boxes. The lunch box was sent back and it was so clean that it was "as clean as it was licked." Ila was very happy, dressed up and greeted her husband (you can guess that she had a bad relationship with her husband), the door opened, and the husband came back and saw another man (suspense).

2. The male protagonist is alone, watching the opposite family reunion dinner scene on the balcony. Compared. This scene appeared twice again.

3. Go to work again and find the note. Ila said that she thinks that to tie a man's heart is to tie his stomach first. I can't tell from the note whether ila is sure to send it wrong. But saajan replied to complain that ila confirmed the wrong order when the dishes were served today. Auntie gave her peppers and asked her to "educate" this person (laughs).

4. At this time, Saajan communicated with the intern, and we learned that his wife died (revealing the background).

5. Once the meal was delivered, Saajan looked at his watch and expressed that he was looking forward to lunck time. Then I replied and commented that the food was too spicy and couldn't help eating bananas. Many people also ate bananas for lunch (implying the status quo of hunger and poverty, and the meaning of lunch). At this time, the footage was edited back and forth between two people.

6. The next day ila replied, telling the story of her bad relationship with her husband and auntie (revealing the background). She was uncle in bed for 15 years and looked at the electric fan above her head every day. It seemed to be something he was hanging on. The electric fan stopped. The heartbeat stopped (details). At the end it says "what do we live for".

7. Saajan replied and offered his own suggestions, believing that changes will bring fresh elements to marriage. Ila did so, wearing honeymoon clothes, but her husband was indifferent. At this time, Saajan once again saw the family reunion on the opposite side.

8. Saajan was in a traffic jam at work. The driver said that a woman took a little girl and jumped down from the tallest building. Saajan is worried that it is the woman (suspense). The nervousness of distributing the lunch box, the dust settled, the expression of relief. Reading the note at lunch time, the intern came over, and suddenly ila's chanting was interrupted (laughing point).

9. Intern Aslam Shaikh expressed dissatisfaction with Saajan's contempt, saying that he is an orphan (revealing the background, contrast with the previous image of frivolous talk, want to promote first).

10. In the note exchange, they talked about the courage of a woman who committed suicide. When ila recites white, the camera takes care of her life. When it comes to the woman taking off the jewelry before jumping off the building, the camera shows ila taking off the jewelry before going to bed. (Audience

asks if there is some kind of hint?) 11. The intern and Saajan got closer. When he bought cigarettes, he said that all his colleagues hated you. It was said that it was because you didn’t save a cat that was in a car accident. Saajan calmly said that they were wrong, I pushed a person under the wheel, he had a car accident, and I walked away. Then saajan walked away, the intern was horrified: u gotta be careful. (Laughter, laugh)

12. The intern and Saajan went to work together, used a folder to chop vegetables (foreshadowing) on ​​the train, and asked him to come home For dinner, it means that he has been a hotel chef before. Speaking of talent has no value in this country. Saajan said that there was something tonight, and then the camera shot him watching TV dramas. (Suspense: Is it bad to get along with people or is it because of other reasons?)

13. Saajan and ila exchanged a note, saying that he watched the TV that his wife loved to watch at home last night. (Guessed that maybe it was the Wife Sacrifice Day last night) He said he watched it all and finally "i knew what i was looking for" at the end. What he missed was that his wife was watching TV when he was working in the yard, and then the shadow of his wife was shown on the TV screen. He said "i wish i looked back then" (tear point)

14. ila replied that his brother died of lung cancer from smoking (reveal the background). The mother came to visit Ila and said that it would be okay if the son was still there, and she needed to use money to buy medicine for her father (explain the background). This shows ila's embarrassment, it is not easy to ask for money from her husband who has broken relationships.

15. From the perspective of the little girl, the mother opens the note. Saajan said of yesterday’s adventure, he found himself as a pedestrian in the painting of the street painter. (The picture of the painter appeared before, according to it) Saajan revisited the old place, while Ila and her daughter played with toys to find the past.

16.ila judged her husband's affair by the smell of her husband's shirt. In the note, she said about it, and also said that she wanted to take her daughter to move to Bruton. The reply is just one sentence: what if i came to bruton with you. Did not read it this time.

17. Say through the mouth of the intern that sometimes wrong train takes you to the right station. Saajan's lonely picture at home (frame within frame)

18. The intern comes to have lunch with Saajan, and the sensational BGM stops when sitting down (laughs). The content of the note was not read again.

19.ila listened to saajan's suggestion to let auntie play a song. The children on the train sang the same song that ila listened to at home.

20. Make an appointment, saajan looks at his watch immediately. The boss asked, Saajan covered up the intern's mistake. It is important to reveal the original papers that were used to cut vegetables. The intern invites Saajan to dinner again, and Saajan goes to the appointment with the intern's fiancee. Saajan told me that I have a girlfriend, her name is ila.

21. The intern chatted with Saajan on the balcony and said that his girlfriend had escaped from the house to be with him, but now her father finally agreed and was about to get married. Invite him to be his "father" at the wedding. Said that his father-in-law gave him a motorcycle because he is going to be promoted (Saajan is going to retire). Saajan said that he might not be back so fast, and wanted to delay (implying that ila made him feel young), the intern was silent, and then: Don't let my father-in-law know. (Laughing point)

22. Saajan is about to go to ila's date, tidying up nervously, looking at herself in front of a dusty mirror. The seat on the train was given up (implying that others think he is old). The sound of the train continues in the next scene (implying a violent psychological shock), and he tells the boss that he wants to retire. Then Ila waited for him in the cafe, but failed, and then gave him an empty lunch box the next day. (Suspense: Why didn't you go?)

23. Disclosure: Saajan wrote a note saying that because he smelled the smell of old man in the bathroom, his grandfather was in this bathroom. He said he had gone, but when he saw her young and beautiful, he felt ashamed and too old.

24. Intern's wedding. Compared with his wife’s family, there is only saajan on the intern side. In the farewell scene with the intern, the intern said that the first time he took the train with him, the fare was evaded, and then he bought a pass. The conversation reveals that Saajan is going to Nasik (implying that it is not bruton, and that he is no longer with ila).

25. The phone rang, and Ila knew that her father had passed away (she was washing clothes, the camera did not move after she got up to answer the phone, and she patted the stool and washing tub empty), and went to the hospital to talk to her mother. Mother said feel hungry. Because I just made breakfast for my father, I haven't eaten it yet. Say, look at him dead, and I just feel hungry. (Tears, revealing some kind of symbolism of eat=love)

26. The death of his father obviously reminded Ila of something. He asked for Saajan's address from the person who delivered the lunch, and took his daughter to see only the intern.

27. Saajan's dialogue with the old man on the train indicated that he would retire and live in Nasik forever, but the old man's hands tremble, suggesting Saajan's regret. The intern used a motorcycle to send Ila and her daughter back, saying sorry.

28. Saajan came back, and the kid asked him why he didn't answer. For the third time, I watched the family carnival scene across from the balcony.

29. Ila once again picked jewelry (suspense, taking care of the woman who talked about suicide before) and chanted the note. She wrote a letter to Saajan of Nasik, saying that she sold the jewelry and wanted to take her daughter to bruton. Again, wrong train takes u to the right station. Two people and two scenes are the same song again.

30. The last shot Saajan is on the train, I don't know if he has gone to bruton. It should be looking for ila.


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Extended Reading
  • Abdullah 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    A literary film without singing and dancing at all, a food delivery system praised by Harvard and the Emperor, an error rate of 1 in 6 million, and the hero and heroine won the prize, which started a letter exchange, until the real face came to an abrupt end, a paragraph "Grass-like Years". . .

  • Fiona 2021-12-28 08:01:34

    A film with a male perspective, it’s rare that an Indian film has such a warmth, and there is no film that dances anytime, anywhere.

The Lunchbox quotes

  • Saajan Fernandes: I think we forget things if there is nobody to tell them.

  • Saajan Fernandes: Nobody buys a lottery ticket expired, Ila.