The Santosh trailer has been released ahead of its U.S. debut later in the year. The film has been written and directed by Sandhya Suri and hails from India. The film revolves around a widow who inherits her late husband’s job of police constable.
Mike Goodridge, James Bowsher, Balthazar de Ganay and Alan McAlex produce the film which stars Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar. Metrograph Pictures will release the film stateside.
The Santosh trailer is below but here’s the synopsis for the movie.
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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Santosh was shot in and around Lucknow, India in 2023. It went on to have its world premiere at the 77th Cannes Film Festival back in May where it played in the Un Certain Regard section.
Officially, the BFI backed Santosh is the United Kingdom’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards and will be released in cinemas in the U.S. on 27th December. Despite it being the official UK Oscars entry it does not yet have an official release date here.
Watch the Santosh trailer below.
