When a seven-year-old new migrant is ostracised at school for his homeland-style lunches, he chooses to eat alone - and starts to resent his mother's cooking.
800 Lunches is one of the Someday Stories series of sustainability-focused short films by emerging film-makers of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Someday Stories are produced by Connected Media with support from NZ On Air, The Body Shop, Te Māngai Pāho and the New Zealand Film Commission in association with Stuff, Māori Television, RNZ, and the Coconet.tv.
Rating: PG - contains bullying
Producer: Ankita Singh | Writer/Director: Bala Murali Shingade
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Aarav Upadhyay, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Sneha Shetty, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Sneha Shetty as "Aditi' scooping biryani into a steel tiffin, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Left to right: Muhammad "Mo" Nasir, Chirag Solanki, Sneha Shetty, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Left to right: Natasha Iyer (art director), Ankita Singh (producer)., Bala Murali Shingade (writer/director), photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Left to right: Tim Flower (DoP), Jared Jones (1st AC), Bala Murali Shingade (writer/director), Dulith Anthony Gunasekera (2nd AC), Max Cumberpatch (extra), Mia Maramara (1st AD), photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Bala directing Max Cumberpatch (left) and Joshua Tan (right), photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Aarav as "Akshay" opening his steel tiffin full of biryani, photo by Daniel Brunskill 2019
Aarav as "Akshay" opening his steel tiffin full of biryani as children stare at him, photo by Daniel Brunskill 2019
Mo Nasir as "Akshay" with friends, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Biryani on set of 800 Lunches, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Biryani on set of 800 Lunches, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Mo Nasir as "Akshay" with friends, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Mo Nasir as "Akshay" with friends, photo by John Rata 2019
Mo Nasir as "Akshay" with friends, photo by John Rata 2019
Mo Nasir as "Akshay" with friends, photo by John Rata 2019
Rishabh Kapoor (unit) making chai for the crew, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Ankita and Dulith on set, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
photo by Ankita Singh 2019
photo by Ankita Singh 2019
photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Sehej Khurana (art director) on set, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Bala holding director's monitor, photo by Ankita Singh 2019
photo by Ankita Singh 2019
Tim, Bala, Joey Siasoco (sound recordist), photo by Ankita Singh 2019
