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‘Santosh’, UK’s Hindi-Language Oscar Hopeful, Gets India Distribution Deal
There has been intrigue as to the Indian distributor given the film's setting and themes.
Pic is written and directed by Sandhya Suri, and stars Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar, and is produced by Good Chaos in association with Suitable Pictures (India) and in co-production with Haut Et Court (France) and Razor Film (Germany). The official synopsis reads: “Ripped from her life of domesticity, Santosh, 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, 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.”
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