Movie Review: How Homebound Unveils India’s Societal Concerns?

he title resonates aptly with the movie, as at several stages, characters find themselves in a dilemma between leaving home in search of a livelihood and wishing to return to fulfil their responsibility toward their family. The movie deftly weaves up issues related to discrimination based on caste and religion, exploitation from the upper class and position, the red tapism and corruption, critiquing the government, migration of youth from villages to cities in search of jobs, the poor living conditions of workers in industries and factories and ultimately the hardships related to the havoc created by Covid 19 pandemic.