2024 · drama · thriller
Santosh
Directed by Sandhya Suri2h 8m2024
A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Our read: Santosh (2024) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
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