{"id":135634,"date":"2025-11-16T01:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/135634\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T01:54:08","slug":"homebound-director-neeraj-ghaywan-on-his-film-ep-martin-scorsese-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/135634\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Homebound\u2019 Director Neeraj Ghaywan On His Film, EP Martin Scorsese And More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIndian filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan<\/a> is thanking to the legendary director Martin Scorsese for lending a gentle guiding hand in shaping his film Homebound<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the film\u2019s executive producer and a mentor to Ghaywan, Scorsese helped him find the focus he needed to make his story \u2014 which explores India\u2019s caste system \u2014 and its characters come to cinematic life, Ghaywan explained during his film\u2019s panel at Deadline\u2019s Contenders Film: Los Angeles. Homebound\u2019s lead actors Ishaan Khatter<\/a> and Vishal Jethwa<\/a> also were on hand Saturday.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201c[Scorsese] started out with reading the script, and he told me how to go about it,\u201d Ghaywan explained. \u201cWe did a back-and-forth, and then again at the end stage he saw the first cut, and then he did a couple of rounds and he would guide with every step. \u2026 I had to have the focus, so he gave me that focus. \u2026 He gave life to all of our stories.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGhaywan explained how the real events that inspired the film\u2019s story moved him to return to big-screen filmmaking after a decadelong hiatus since his widely acclaimed first feature, Masaan.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cHomebound started with this op-ed essay in The New York Times,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was a true story that happened in India, and it was a story of friendship and what happened to these friends during the journey [during] the pandemic. Now, when I read this story, it was obviously quite gut-wrenching and it was very moving, and I wanted to use that as a base friendship, as a strong way to talk about our bigger concerns that the world is now grappling with, which is that what makes migrants leave their homes in rural India or across the world? What are the things that motivate them? It\u2019s not just jobs, it\u2019s not just money, it\u2019s also existential.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Oscars 2026 International Feature Film Submissions By Country \u2013 A List Of 91 Declared Submissions<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere is an attempt to sort of humanize their experiences of marginalized communities across the world and to take away the nature of them being reduced to statistics and abstraction everywhere,\u201d the director said. \u201cThere was an urgent need to humanize their experiences so that we could see their pain and see what goes through and show connection as a strong force of empathy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOf his attempt to find lighter tones, he added: \u201cI wanted to dismantle the victimhood of marginalized communities and to bring in the joy, bring in the human nature of it, like present them as humans and not just victims of stay subjugation or oppression. There are also people who love their families, love each other. They have humor, they have good food and all of those things that makes them human. It was essential to bring that in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck back Monday for the panel video.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Oscars, Grammys, Guilds & More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indian filmmaker Neeraj Ghaywan is thanking to the legendary director Martin Scorsese for lending a gentle guiding hand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10308,84209,56178,146,27574,85,27577,46,27576,84211,27575],"class_list":{"0":"post-135634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-awardsnews","9":"tag-contenders-los-angeles","10":"tag-dharma-productions","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-homebound","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-ishaan-khatter","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-neeraj-ghaywan","17":"tag-novid","18":"tag-vishal-jethwa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}