This long-awaited second feature from celebrated Masaan director Neeraj Ghaywan follows a pair of best friends from a northern Indian village who dream of securing police work as a means of infusing their lives with status and financial security. Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, the heart-wrenching Homebound depicts a clash between youthful ambition and bracing political realities.
Chandan (Vishal Jethwa), a Dalit, and Shoaib (Ishaan Khatter), a Muslim, are determined to beat the odds: out of 2.5 million applicants, they each hope to win one of just 3,500 police jobs available, believing that wearing a uniform will provide them with the dignity they desire. But a year goes by without news of their exam results. Should they resign themselves to the poorly paid labour available in their village? Should they go to university? Or take a chance and move to Dubai to seek migrant jobs?
Economic pressures mount. Shoaib’s newly disabled father can no longer work the fields, while Chandan desperately wants to build his parents a house so that his mother can retire. But time, circumstance, and the ongoing humiliation they suffer due to religious and caste-based bigotry threatens to crush their hopes — and perhaps even their precious friendship
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