Neeraj Ghaywan's Homebound could move you to tears, or it’ll trigger thoughts about a human tragedy that people in general. It makes the audience conscious of their own privileges. There's no denying why it's the year’s best Indian film, thus far.

Homebound

Director: Neeraj Ghaywan

Actors: Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa, Janhvi Kapoor

Rating: 4 stars

The starting point of this film, I’m told, was once a photograph, doing the rounds on social media. Which led journalist Basharat Peer to dive deeper into its origins and write a piece for the opinion page of The New York Times (NYT). Read More

It was titled, ‘A Friendship, a Pandemic and a Death Beside the Highway: How a photograph of a young man cradling his dying friend sent me off on a journey across India,’ datelined July 31, 2020,

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