The premiere of Neeraj Ghaywan 's 'Homebound' felt like being inside an Instagram scroll. The film had just been selected as India's national submission to the Academy Awards. After its shiny world premiere at Cannes, it was being screened for guests in Juhu. People had turned out. It was hard to keep your eyes from resting too long on all of the very familiar, very-online faces. Two hours later, that feeling had changed into something like its reverse. The opposite of the content scroll - the ever-advancing feed of new information and images - is the act of pausing to remember. There are plenty of reasons 'Homebound' is so interesting. Many of them I'd known in advance: its origins in a news photo from 2020, and a later piece of reportage about that photo; that it came to be produc

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