an afternoon with Stanley's lunchbox

I had read about "Stanley ka dabba" in movie reviews and of course my favorite Wikipedia. But none of this prepared me for what lay ahead. An innocent school boy. His too cute friends o stand by him through thick and thin. The daily school activities and an evil read phagomanic teacher. We have all seen it . All experienced it. I have had my share of teachers, some of them plain sadistic others weird but diva Dutta as miss rosy was just too cute and good to be true. A beacon in a dark night. And father as principal, we had sister who made as as disciplined as we are today. The fluency in English is her gift to us. Who scared us of dire consequences if we talk in anything except English in school. Most of the teachers were more of "patya takne (a slang term in Marathi which states doing something just as a duty) types. Anyways again digressing. Then there was a refreshingly true diva jagdale's science teacher who instead of appreciating his creativity in form of actual lighthouse, insists on bookish and topic related project. But the too good and just so real was the khadoos, verma sir aka ample Gupta. Eeks the way he slurped on his student's dubba and his reprimanding Stanley for not getting his own. Going far as telling him not to come to school if he does not carry lunch box of his own.  The beans are spilled by his friends to miss rosy who confronts him. Later when Stanley gets his own lunch box and serves him , he has enough and finally leaves Stanley alone. Then there is competition in which Stanley participates. Things look very bright but we understand only in the end that Stanley is a child laborer, and receives daily verbal and physical abuse from his guardian aka uncle aka hotel owner where Stanley works. Oops that hit hard. The film ends with Stanley serving everyone from his lunch box.
What I liked about the movie was a real school scenario, real teachers and real life at the end of the day. Wow. It touched that core that all the gyrating moves, sick dialogues and melodramatic dialogues  had killed or so I thought. This experience made me excited for another movie and I found one.. Two days later.