Janhvi Questioned Her Privilege On Homebound Set, Says Ghaywan: 'She's Been Heavily Trolled...'

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Last Updated:May 22, 2025, 00:16 IST

Karan Johar, who has worked intimately with Janhvi Kapoor since her debut, said Homebound proved to beryllium a therapeutic process for the actor.

Homebound squad astatine the Cannes movie festival.

Janhvi Kapoor’s show successful Neeraj Ghaywan’s Homebound has been met with captious acclaim, receiving a rousing nine-minute lasting ovation astatine its satellite premiere astatine the Cannes Film Festival. The movie was screened astatine the Debussy Theatre connected Wednesday and was attended by Ghaywan, pb actors Ishaan Khatter, Vishal Jethwa and Janhvi, on with shaper Karan Johar and his Dharma Productions team, including Apoorva Mehta and Somen Mishra.

For Kapoor, Homebound was much than conscionable different film. Portraying Sudha, a Dalit miss successful a North Indian village, pushed her into uncharted territory some emotionally and socially. Director Neeraj Ghaywan, known for his delicate storytelling and beardown societal commentary, was vocal astir the translation helium witnessed successful her.

“She’s been maligned publically and heavy trolled, but erstwhile radical spot this movie and her existent potential, they’ll aftermath up to spot she’s truly made of thing else," Ghaywan told Variety. He shared that during the film’s preparation, Kapoor began reflecting connected her ain inheritance and privilege. “She started questioning her ain privilege. I gave her Ambedkar’s ‘Annihilation of Caste’ to read, and she went into a rabbit spread of trying to recognize the glaring differences that we unrecorded with together," helium said.

Karan Johar, who has worked intimately with Kapoor since her debut, said Homebound proved to beryllium a therapeutic process for the actor. What began arsenic a 10-day store with Ghaywan for a shelved task turned into an acquisition of idiosyncratic growth. “She felt she was successful 10 days of therapy with Neeraj, and she felt healed arsenic a result," Johar said. “Even now, she says those 7 oregon 8 days spent connected the sets of Homebound volition beryllium her champion days spent connected a movie set. She felt she wasn’t truly acting but going done immoderate benignant of idiosyncratic catharsis."

Set successful a agrarian North Indian village, Homebound centres connected 2 champion friends Shoaib (Ishaan Khatter), a Muslim, and Chandan (Vishal Jethwa), a Dalit, who imagination of becoming constabulary officers. As they await responses from the authorities aft passing their entranceway tests, they are forced to face social, economical and idiosyncratic barriers. While Shoaib struggles to attraction for his ailing father, Chandan joins college, successful portion to enactment adjacent to Sudha (Janhvi Kapoor), a chap Dalit from a somewhat much unchangeable household background.

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