HOYLAKE Cinema Club's fourth season opens with a screening of multi-award winning Indian Rom-Com The Lunchbox later this week. 

The film, rated PG, tells the story of Saajan, a lonely accountant about to retire from his job, and Ila, a young wife seeking her husband's attention, looking for ways to put romance back in her marriage, and who tries to cook her way to her husband's heart.

Through a rare mix-up of the famous dabbawalas - a complicated system that picks up and delivers lunches from restaurants or homes to men at work - of Mumbai, the lunchbox with the delicious food Ila prepared for her husband instead gets delivered to widower Saajan.

When the lunch containers are delivered back to Ila empty, she is happy, thinking her husband has enjoyed her cooking. When she questions him, he does not seem to think much of it.

Realising the mistake of the delivery, she writes a note to the recipient of her lunch thanking him for enjoying the food and sends him her husband's favourite meal the following day.

So begins a letter-based romance that will be screened at Hoylake Community Centre in Hoyle Road, Hoylake on Friday, October 31.

Cinema spokesman Mark Howard said: "From very humble beginnings we have slowly built up a regular audience, and many of the films shown last season were sell-out occasions.

"Our strapline is 'It's about much more than film', and the success of our quizzes after the films and the regular praise for the home-made food provided on the night are testament to that.

"This season we’ll be screening, among others, Goldfinger, Cinema Paradiso, In the Heat of the Night, Saturday Night Fever and ending the season with all-time favourite Casablanca.

"Our Christmas special this year is The Nutcracker, performed by the Mariinsky Ballet (formerly the Kirov). We expect this to be extremely popular, so I would recommend early booking."

Tickets for The Lunchbox cost £5 and are available from gift shop Urbane, Market Street, Hoylake; Staacks, Banks Road, West Kirby; Toast, Station Approach, West Kirby; The Parade, Hoylake Community Centre; on the door on the night or www.hoylakecommunitycinema.co.uk.

Doors open at 6.30pm and the film starts at 7.30pm.