The Lunchbox

A lot of people were complaining about the ending of lunchbox and I really liked it so I am going to do my best to explain at least why I think it was ended in the way it was.  The big line from the film was “sometimes the wrong train will get you to the right destination.”, it was said several times throughout the film and is even in the last letter written by Ila to Saajan and then at the end of the note lies the key, at least in my opinion to the entire ending she says “We’ll see.”.  This shows that Ila is nervous about doing what many people in her culture would consider wrong, leaving her husband to be with a much older man.  Likewise Saajan is going to be with a much younger woman and doesn’t know how he feels about it.  So in both of their minds they are on the “wrong train” and they don’t know whether this train will continue on to it’s wrong destination, rejection and regret, or if it will bring them to the right destination, happiness.  In the end of the movie Ila is getting ready to go to the train station and Sajaan is on a train to her house and then it ends.  I believe that this is done to give the audience the same feeling that is currently being felt by the two main characters.  I like this ending as it makes the characters more relatable and adds more weight to their decisions to go against convention.