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Cannes Title ‘Santosh’ First Clip Unveiled: ‘Religious Intolerance, Casteism, Prejudice and Misogyny Are Sitting Heavily in the Atmosphere’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Sandhya Suri's fiction feature debut 'Santosh,' which bows in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard strand, has unveiled its first clip.
In the film, a government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her slain husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of northern India. “I had been working with various different NGOs and little towns in northern India dealing with women’s issues and seeing some pretty horrible stuff and thinking, how to tell this [and] documentary was feeling very frontal, I couldn’t find any understanding within it.” Suri cast her because she had the “right mix of hardness and sweetness and anger lying there in a very restrained way.” Sharma is played by experienced theater actor Sunita Rajwar, best known for hit SonyLIV series “Gullak,” which commences Season 4 in June.
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