It’s strange, and at the same time quite telling, that both Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound and Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, released on the same day, could easily exchange their titles, and it would only make each of them more thoughtful. After all, what is Homebound if not a battle fought every single day by its characters, each trying to find their place in a nation that seems to have no space for them anymore.

Based on the moving New York Times article “A Friendship, a Pandemic and a Death Beside the Highway” by Basharat Peer (who also co-wrote one of the defining films of the last decade, Haider), the film is a rare feat. It not only expands on the already heart-breaking source material but also manages to capture the spirit of India in times as divided as these. I

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