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Santosh review – terrifically tense cop movie digs into sexism and caste prejudice in India

Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami lead a sinewy crime drama as a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie who has inherited her late husband’s jobWriter-director Sandhya Suri has made a tense, violent and politically savvy crime procedural set in India: a film about sexism, caste bigotry and Islamophobia that doubles as a study in the complex relationship between two female cops, a cynical veteran and a wide-eyed rookie. They are terrifically played by Sunita Rajwar and Shahana Goswami in what is almost a gender-switched Indian version of Training Day.Suri is a film-maker who 20 years ago gave us a tremendous personal essay movie I for India, and this is her fiction-feature debut, which reportedly started as a documentary project inspired by public demonstrations about the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh. It centres on the Indian convention of “compassionate appointment”: the dependent widow of a public official can apply for the same job. Goswami plays Santosh, whose cop husband ...



"Santosh" is a tense Indian crime drama directed by Sandhya Suri, exploring sexism, caste prejudice, and Islamophobia through the relationship between two female cops. A rookie, Santosh (Shahana Goswami), inherits her late husband's job and is mentored by a cynical veteran, Geeta Sharma (Sunita Rajwar), as they investigate the rape and murder of a young Dalit girl. Santosh navigates the complexities of the job, revealing a capacity for both morality policing and brutal tactics, driven by a personal quest for closure related to her husband's death.

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