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Neeraj Ghaywan’s sophomore feature, Homebound has been shortlisted for the 98th Academy Awards successful the Best International Feature Film category.
On Tuesday, December 16, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced shortlists successful each the categories, including, Animated Short Film, Casting, Cinematography, Documentary Feature Film, Documentary Short Film, International Feature Film, Live Action Short Film, Makeup and Hairstyling, Music (Original Score), Music (Original Song), Sound and Visual Effects.
Homebound, produced by Karan Johar and starring Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa and Janhvi Kapoor, volition beforehand to the information circular on with 15 others successful the category. In the adjacent round, Academy members from each branches volition beryllium invited to ticker each the 15 shortlisted films to vote.
Reacting to the news, Karan took to societal media and wrote, “I americium not definite I tin articulate however proud, elated and implicit the satellite I americium with the travel of Homebound. All of america @dharmamovies are privileged to person this arrogant and important movie successful our filmography. Thank you @neeraj.ghaywan for making truthful galore dreams of ours travel true. From Cannes to being connected the Oscar shortlist this has been specified an overwhelming journey! Love to the full formed and unit and teams of this peculiar special film! Upwards and onwards.”
Other films that made it to the shortlist successful the Best International Feature class include, Argentina’s Belén, Brazil’s The Secret Agent, France’s It Was Just an Accident, Germany’s Sound of Falling, Iraq’s The President’s Cake, Japan’s Kokuho, Jordan’s All That’s Left of You, Norway’s Sentimental Value, Palestine’s Palestine 36, South Korea’s No Other Choice, Spain’s Sirât, Switzerland’s Late Shift, Taiwan’s Left-Handed Girl and Tunisia’s The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Hollywood manager Martin Scorsese serves arsenic the enforcement shaper connected Homebound. It tells the communicative of 2 puerility friends, Shoaib (Ishaan) and Chandan (Vishal) who pursuit a constabulary occupation that promises them dignity but are trapped successful India’s brutal socio-political reality. The movie is based connected writer Basharat Peer’s 2020 New York Times article, ‘Taking Amrit Home’.
After its premiere astatine the Cannes Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) earlier this year, Homebound was released successful theatres connected September 26, 2025.
