Dabba Wallahs (1998)

Dabba Wallahs plot

Every day a large number of lunch deliverers (dabba wallahs) lug around Bombay carrying 100 kilograms of food on their heads. The working man attaches great importance to the fact that his own wife prepares the food, and not unexpectedly someone from a lower caste. The dabba wallah then distributes this lunch through an ingenious network. The boss of the lunch delivery company still personally labels the lunch boxes with a letter. Illiterate employees have come to recognize those letters over time, he says when asked. He also sells some chickens every now and then when things get a little worse, as more and more men choose to ignore the tradition of the caste system and head to the company canteens. One of the wives, on the other hand, has been preparing the dishes for her husband for 22 years, in which turmeric and cloves, 'for cough and cold', have been mixed. The film makers paint a picture of a slowly dying phenomenon by means of portraits.

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