Overview

• Bollywood celebrities praised the film at the Sept. 22 Mumbai event, with Vicky Kaushal calling it “calming, breaking and speechless” and urging audiences not to miss it.
• Janhvi Kapoor honored her late mother Sridevi by rewearing the designer saree Sridevi debuted at Virat Kohli and Anushka Sharma’s 2017 reception.
• Actor Vishal Jethwa grew emotional on the red carpet and was comforted by his mother, Preeti Jethwa, in a moment widely shared online.
• The Film Federation of India has selected Homebound as the country’s official entry for the 2026 Academy Awards in Best International Feature.
• Directed by Neeraj Ghaywan and produced by Dharma with Martin Scorsese as executive producer, the drama premiered at Cannes, screened at TIFF, and opens in India on Sept. 26.