{"id":35967,"date":"2025-09-21T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=35967"},"modified":"2025-09-21T11:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T11:18:48","slug":"friendship-caste-faith-indias-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=35967","title":{"rendered":"Friendship, Caste, Faith: India\u2019s Mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Homebound, by Neeraj Ghaywan, is a raw, haunting exploration of caste and religious identity in contemporary India. Based on Basharat Peer\u2019s essay, it follows two childhood friends \u2014 Shoaib, a Muslim, and Chandan, a Dalit \u2014 who aspire to become police officers, believing that the uniform will bring dignity and respect. Their dreams and bond are tested through everyday humiliations, discrimination, and the brutal circumstances of the COVID\u201119 lockdown. Performances by Vishal Jethwa and Ishaan Khatter stand out, charged with both anger and vulnerability. The film doesn\u2019t offer easy solutions; instead it forces us to confront uncomfortable truths about prejudice, identity, and empathy.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/movies\/bollywood\/story\/homebound-review-neeraj-ghaywan-film-on-caste-faith-holds-mirror-to-society-2790436-2025-09-20?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">Source<\/a>)\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/212443307418743624\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog_trending\/article5008_shop.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding -bottom: 5px; padding-top: 5px;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Related Videos<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_29547\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtX_JnKVLkw?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_20269\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lCzuk2l6ih8?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_65313\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Yx6dXhiiu0?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-timeline\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ishaan_khatter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">Tweets by ishaan_khatter<\/a> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homebound, by Neeraj Ghaywan, is a raw, haunting exploration of caste and religious identity in contemporary India. Based on Basharat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35974,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35967\/revisions\/35974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}