‘I am thrilled, but not surprised. It’s a bold and deserving choice. Sending Homebound to the Oscars is a statement,’ said Netflix’s Kaala Paani fame Mahadev Singh.
‘An all-male film wasn’t sitting well with me. But, the female characters aren’t shoehorned into the film for inclusivity. They're distinct characters with agency,' said Ghaywan.
The movie was screened in the Un Certain Regard segment with several Indian celebrities and actors in attendance. Ghaywan’s directorial debut 'Masaan' was also at the Cannes in 2015.
In the third anniversary week of Neeraj Ghaywan’s landmark Masaan, sharing my reflections on how it saw the rise of the small-town Indian, powered by the cheap private education-motorcycle-smartphone trinity.
By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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