Overview
- Martin Scorsese said he has been involved for about three years, offering script notes while he was making Killers of the Flower Moon.
- A New York screening he hosted included a public conversation with Neeraj Ghaywan and drew Mira Nair, Padma Lakshmi and Kal Penn, with cast members Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa attending.
- Homebound adapts Basharat Peer’s New York Times essay about Mohammad Saiyub and Amrit Kumar, following two friends who work as migrant laborers during the pandemic.
- Ghaywan said the team kept Scorsese’s role confidential with the code name “elder brother” and that authorities were “fairly cooperative” after he avoided overt political sloganeering.
- Award prospects are buoyed by a nine-minute standing ovation at Cannes 2025 and backing from Dharma Productions, with Scorsese serving as executive producer.