New Delhi: British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri says her debut feature “Santosh”, which is the UK’s official entry to the Oscars, is a deeply political film but she was careful that the story, woven around two female cops, doesn’t become “didactic”.
Set in the interiors of north India, the movie revolves around a widow, played by Shahana Goswami, who gets her late husband’s job of a police constable. She and her senior inspector (Sunita Rajwar) are soon sucked into a high-profile investigation into the rape and murder of a Dalit teenager.
“My film is deeply political about the role of women and where we are,” Suri told PTI in an interview, admitting that she often gets lost for words to talk about the movie in a “bigger way” because she funneled everything she felt about the subject into her movie.
