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Santosh (2024 Film)
''Santosh'' is a 2024 Hindi-language police procedural crime drama film written and directed by Sandhya Suri. It is an international co-production of the United Kingdom, India, Germany, and France. Set in rural north India, it stars Shahana Goswami as a widow who inherits her late husband's job of police constable and is involved in the investigation of the murder and rape of a Dalit teenager. The film was intended to be a documentary on sexual abuse in India, but the director decided to create a film after seeing an image of female demonstrators spitting on a female constable in a protest on 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder''.'' Filming lasted from August to October 2023 in Lucknow, India. The film had its world premiere in the ''Un Certain Regard'' section of the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2024, where it received positive reviews from critics. It was named one of the top 5 international films of 2024 by the National Board of Review, and was nominated at the 78th BA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sandhya Suri
Sandhya Suri is a British-Indian film director and documentarian. Early life Sandhya Suri was born in England and raised in Darlington. Her father, Yash Pal Suri, had emigrated from India to work at a hospital in Teesside. Career After earning a degree in mathematics, Suri worked as a teacher in Japan. Her experiences documenting this period on camera inspired her to study documentary filmmaking at the National Film and Television School. In 2005, Suri's released the documentary '' I for India'' detailing her father's experiences as a 20th-century Indian immigrant in the United Kingdom based on his own tape recordings. ''I for India'' was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Suri's second film, the silent 2018 documentary ''Around India with a Movie Camera'', used archival British Film Institute footage to explore life in British India. That same year, Suri released the narrative short film '' The Field'', which was nominated for the BAF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |