Santosh

Name: Santosh
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Released: 2024
Duration: 128 min
Cast: Shahana Goswami, Sunita Rajwar, Nawal Shukla, Pratibha Awasthy, Prashant Kumar

Sandhya Suri20242h 8mCrime, Drama, Thriller

Why we chose it

Blocked by the censors in India and submitted for the Oscars by the UK, Sandhya Suri’s tough crime debut caused a stir at festivals around the world. A newly widowed woman puts on her late husband’s uniform and is pulled straight into the investigation of a teenage girl’s murder.

Synopsis

In India, a policeman’s widow can take over his job. So when her husband is killed in a riot, Santosh Saini puts on the uniform and is posted to a station in a small town in the north. Soon a fifteen-year-old girl is found raped and dead. She was a Dalit, from the lowest caste, and when Inspector Geeta Sharma takes over the case, she brings Santosh with her.