Santosh

In this taut, north India-set thriller, a housewife-turned-cop is sucked into a high-profile case that has polarised the local community.

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Credits

  • Director-screenwriter

    Sandhya Suri

  • With

    Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Nawal Shukla

  • UK-France-Germany 2024. 127min

  • Courtesy of

    mk2 Films

  • Language

    Hindi

    With English subtitles

Introduction

Santosh is recently widowed and therefore considered a liability in a community where casteism and misogyny are an inextricable part of life. Furthermore, her reluctant inheritance of her husband’s job as police constable is problematised by her having to deal with the death of a murdered teenager. Sandhya Suri’s deft thriller is a complex character study of a female cop whose moral conflict lays bare the oppression perpetuated in the name of caste.

Kalpana Nair

Content warning

Contains graphic violence.

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