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SANTOSH Trailer: Sandhya Suri’s U.K. Oscar Entry Arrives in December

Shahana Goswami in SANTOSH

Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a young widow in India who takes on her late husband’s job as a police officer in a corrupt force. Metrograph Pictures picked up the thriller following its Cannes premiere, and has been recently selected as the U.K.’s official Oscar entry. Ahead of its release this December, the official trailer has arrived.

Here’s the official synopsis:

Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh (Shahana Goswami), a young widow now desperate to support herself, accepts an opportunity to inherit her husband’s job as a police officer in the rural badlands of India. Quickly taken under the wing of Sharma (Sunita Rajwar), a charismatic and commanding older female inspector, Santosh begins an investigation into a low-caste girl’s brutal murder that plunges her into a gritty world of crime and corruption, forcing her to confront not only the brokenness of the system around her, but her own place within it.

Santosh opens in select theaters December 27. Watch the trailer below.

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M.J. O'Toole began writing for HtN in early 2021 during the Sundance Film Festival. An NYC native and lifelong cinephile, his favorite films include Chungking Express, The Three Colors Trilogy, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Lovers on the Bridge, and Midnight Cowboy. He is the Digital Marketing Manager for the agency 3rd Impression - working alongside Editor-at-large Matt Delman - that specializes in digital marketing for independent film. He holds a BA from Adelphi University and a Masters in Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts. You can check out his portrait and street photography on Instagram.

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