Lunchbox among top

Ritesh Batra's The Lunchbox, a Sony Picture Classics release, has become one of the five highest-grossing independent films in the USA in the first quarter of 2014.

According to an Indiewire article, The Lunchbox has now totaled $885,451 after playing in 73 theatres in the past weekend.

" Expect it to join Gloria in the $1 million club in the next week or so..." writes Peter Knet. Gloria, the Oscar submission from Chile in the foreign-language category, is the only foreign-language film to have crossed the $1m mark at the US box-office this year.

The four indie releases that made more money than The Lunchbox are Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, Harold Cronk's God's not Dead, Sebastian Lelio's Gloria and documentary Tim's Vermeer by Teller.

The Lunchbox, starring Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, released in the US on February 28 and is now playing in theatres in major cities of the country including New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington, Chicago, San Jose, Denver, Houston, Philadelphia and Dallas.