Academy Award-winning producer Guneet Monga, who bankrolled the 2013 drama ‘The Lunchbox’ starring Irrfan Khan and Nimrat Kaur, sat down for a chat on Mid-day’s podcast series The Bombay Film Story and asserted that the film would have won an Oscar. For those unversed, in 2013, ‘The Good Road’, a Gujarati film was India’s official entry for the Academy Awards. That being said, ‘The Lunchbox’ did receive a BAFTA nomination in 2015. 

How ‘The Lunchbox’ missed an Oscar nomination 

Guneet Monga shared, “The whole world pointed that out. Lunchbox would have won, hands down. Even if I`m saying a bigger statement, would have been nominated. And I hear it till date. In rooms that I enter, they`re like, `You missed an Oscar`. It had Sony Picture Classics, and we missed that bus.”