LONDON: London-based director Sandhya Suri’s Uttar Pradesh-set police movie” Santosh”, which premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, was on Wednesday named as Britain’s Oscar passage in the global have class.
A newly widowed housewife is tasked with carrying out her late husband’s duties as a police officer as she joins the investigation into a young woman’s crime in” Santosh,” which includes Hindi conversations.
With” The Zone of Curiosity,” Britain won the 2024 Oscar in the global picture group.
” Santosh” has been hailed as a “deft thriller” and intricate character study of a feminine cop, played by Shahana Goswami, whose social conflict intertwines many styles of class, race and hatred. I’m not actually someone who wants to make a movie because they want to tell something to someone. I do n’t have any specific campaigns or lists to tick off. So, I do n’t like didactic films. But what struck me as fascinating was the concept of a particular position,” Suri.
Suri, who also serves as the project’s writer, used a talented native team to shoot her first feature film in and around Lucknow over the course of 44 days using her own knowledge of American history and documentary film. She continued, reliving all the background noise the team had to deal with amid continuous native holidays, saying,” I wanted to shoot in UP because I’m originally from there and I wanted to picture in a lot of life areas.
Suri, born and raised in north-east England, finds herself continually drawn to India. ” I wanted to shoot in UP because I’m originally from there and… ( it ) was very important for me to have feeling of authenticity”, she told PTI.
