Home<\/span><\/a>\u00bb<\/span>News<\/span><\/a>\u00bb<\/span>Homebound premiere: Vicky Kaushal opens up on what makes him value life – Watch<\/span>\u00bb<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Homebound, featuring Ishaan Khatter, Janhvi Kapoor and Vishal Jethwa in the lead roles, premiered in Mumbai recently. Various celebrities attended the screening for the movie which is India’s official entry for Oscars 2026. Vicky Kaushal, among the guests, spoke about the one thing that makes you value life. Here’s what he said…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Vicky Kaushal was among one of the most memorable actors at the premiere of Homebound in Mumbai. “The most special thing about Homebound – hugging the people around makes you value life,” Vicky said after watching the film, which is India’s official entry for Oscars 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n “It really breaks your heart and moves you,” is what Farhan Akhtar shared after watching the film. Rohit Saraf, soon to be seen in Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, felt that the movie really snuck up on him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Arjun Kapoor, who had been making headlines for his reunion with Malaika Arora at the event, said, “I just feel grateful to be alive after watching the film.” All other celebrities, including Sunny Kaushal, Diana Penty and Malaika herself, shared a similar sentiment as Arjun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hrithik Roshan, also spotted at the premiere, did not even speak words but expressed his emotions with eyes shut. Shweta Tripathi, who was a part of Neeraj Ghaywan’s Masaan, felt happy and proud after watching the movie from the director who gave her the big Bollywood break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Homebound<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Not too long ago, it was confirmed that Homebound would be India’s official entry for Oscars 2026. The movie is Ishaan and Janhvi’s second collaboration with Karan Johar since their Bollywood debut in Dhadak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Q: What is Homebound at Cannes?<\/strong> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.ottplay.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home\u00bbNews\u00bbHomebound premiere: Vicky Kaushal opens up on what makes him value life – Watch\u00bb Homebound, featuring Ishaan Khatter, Janhvi Kapoor and Vishal Jethwa in the lead roles, premiered in Mumbai recently. Various celebrities attended the screening for the movie which is India’s official entry for Oscars 2026. Vicky Kaushal, among the guests, spoke about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2046523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[379379,378213,379377,379380,379381,379378],"class_list":["post-2046522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-homebound-for-oscars","tag-homebound-premiere","tag-homebound-vicky-kaushal","tag-ishaan-janhvi-movies","tag-karan-johar-oscars","tag-vicky-kaushal-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Homebound-premiere-Vicky-Kaushal-opens-up-on-what-makes-him.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2046523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Vicky Kaushal’s speech at Homebound premiere<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Homebound – India’s official entry for Oscars 2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/p>\nFAQs<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nA: Neeraj Ghaywan’s new film Homebound, which premiered in the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, finds its roots in a poignant real-life story first told in a New York Times op-ed during India’s COVID-19 lockdown.
\nQ: Who stars in Homebound?<\/strong>
\nA: Produced by Karan Johar, Adar Poonawalla, Apoorva Mehta, and Somen Mishra, and directed by Neeraj Ghaywan, Homebound stars Ishaan Khatter, Janhvi Kapoor, and Vishal Jethwa.
\nQ: Is Homebound releasing in theaters?<\/strong>
\nA: Yes. Homebound will hit theaters on September 26, 2025, worldwide.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n