‘Santosh’ to Represent U.K. in Oscars International Feature Race
variety.comAlex Ritman The British Academy has selected Sandhya Suri’s acclaimed crime thriller “Santosh” as the U.K.’s submission to the Oscars‘ international feature film category.
The Hindi-language film, which bowed in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes earlier this year, enters the race perhaps carrying some added weight of pressure, with the U.K.
having won the international feature Oscar earlier this year for the very first time with Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest.” The directorial feature debut of of British-Indian filmmaker Suri, best know for her documentaries “I for India” (2005) and “Around India with a Movie Camera” (2018), “Santosh” is set in rural northern India, where newly-widowed Santosh inherits her late husband’s job as a police constable.
When an underage girl from one of India’s so-called “lower castes” is murdered, she is pulled into the investigation by a charismatic feminist inspector.
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