Stanley Ka Dabba

As the name suggests, SKD is about a kids tiffin box as they fondly call it Dabba in India.
Wait... it ain't about the jumpy feeling we all usually had as kids,just before the lunch time to discover the yummy food in the fancy, colorful boxes we carried from home.
It's about the innocence, the learning fire with a day starting with zest and bending creativity round the clock.It's about counting our blessings , for life is a gift to enjoy, learn and share.
Stanley is a sweet and creative kid, good at recitation and verses.He has a zeal to live life and doesn't care about things he doesn't have.Things he doesn't have? No, they are not fancy pencil boxes, bags, shoes or sports wear.It's a mum that he doesn't have who an cook his Dabba.Sad...:(.
He never shares this fact with his friends and manges by drinking water during the recess everyday until his friends figure out the truth and start sharing their dabba with him.
In context is also an insensitive teacher , who outsets him from the class failing to bring a dabba and thinking that he gulped his share (the teacher's share ) from his friends (stanley's friends) dabba.
Baby Stanley , then manages to bring a tiffin to the school after absenting for days as instructed by the "khadoos" teacher,which makes the teachers heart melt.Funny are incidents where this teacher searches the boys during the lunch break to greedily gulp their homemade food.


The movie addresses a  very important social issue.The kid manages to bring the dabba from a "Dhaaba" where he works after school.He prays at night to his late parents and his quest , his smile are unparalleled the next day onwards again,meeting his friends and sharing his food from the dabba with his teachers and friends making up stories how his mother manages to bring the best vegetables from all over Mumbai and Punjab and cook him the best food.
A heart touching story.Scenes look real just like from my and your school.The teachers room conversation reflects different personalities.Picturises Indian household lunch boxes and how they are an integral part of our growing up years and later too. Reminiscence of  our school days as kids.Also reminds us how lunch break unites us with friends, colleagues and teachers too  in this case.