Warning: This post contains spoilers for Homebound . Homebound , directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and out now on Netflix, is inspired by a 2020 New York Times essay by journalist Basharat Peer that captured a striking moment during India’s COVID lockdown . The article chronicled the lives of two childhood friends, Mohammad Saiyub and Amrit Kumar, whose journey home to the village of Devari became a viral story after a photograph captured one friend cradling the other, feverish and dehydrated, on the