Santosh (2024 film)
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| Directed by | Sandhya Suri |
| Written by | Sandhya Suri |
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| Cinematography | Lennert Hillege |
| Edited by | Maxime Pozzi-Garcia |
| Music by | Luisa Gerstein |
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| Distributed by | Civic Studios Vertigo Releasing (United Kingdom and Ireland) PVR Inox Pictures (India) Haut et Court (France) |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
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| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | $2.5 million |
| Box office | $1.3 million |
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 BAFTA Awards for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. It was also selected as the UK's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist.