Overview
- India selected Homebound as its official submission for the Academy Awards’ international feature category after strong festival reactions.
- Scorsese served as executive producer and mentor for roughly three years, offering script and edit notes while he made Killers of the Flower Moon.
- The team kept his role confidential during development, using the code name “elder brother,” and he has now introduced the film at a high-profile New York screening.
- Neeraj Ghaywan says the film aims to be pro-humanity, not polemical, and he employed subtlety to navigate certification, with reports of CBFC scrutiny and a delayed board screening.
- Adapted from a New York Times essay by Basharat Peer, the film follows two migrant friends—one Dalit and one Muslim—and has drawn sustained U.S. screening interest after a reported nine-minute ovation at Cannes 2025.