Santosh

Opens Friday, December 27, 2024

Santosh, newly widowed and desperate to support herself, accepts an opportunity to inherit her husband’s job as a police officer in rural India. Taken under the wing of Sharma, a charismatic and commanding older female inspector, Santosh begins an investigation into a low-caste girl’s brutal murder that plunges her into a world of crime and corruption, forcing her to confront not only the brokenness of the system around her, but her place within it. Official UK submission, Academy Awards.

A Metrograph Pictures release.

“A gripping and powerfully feminist procedural… the non-Hollywoodized Training Day.” -Time Out

Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival

• Country UK
• Language Hindi with English Subtitles
• Running Time 120 minutes
• Format DCP
• Distributor Metrograph Pictures
• Director Sandhya Suri
• Cast Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar
• Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil

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