To watch “Santosh” is to feel the undeniable power of a discerning, resonant case study. To fully know this character, however, is a goal just outside this otherwise intelligently wrought ...

In Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, a young Dalit girl has been murdered and her body is found floating in a village well.But it’s the apathy, the procedural inertia, and the sneering shrugs and ...

And, of course, Santosh, who as a woman and a widow is not taken seriously by the men who hold power in the community. In the stacked hierarchies of “Santosh,” everyone is trying to scramble ...

Sandhya Suri tackles the caste divides and misogyny of Indian policing. Film review by Helen Hawkins Held up by the censors in India though screened at Cannes and nominated for an International Oscar, ...

Amid RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav's criticism of the BJP-led NDA government over the Waqf Act during his Gandhi Maidan rally ...

In a modest home tucked away from the glitter of big-budget premieres, actor Sunita Rajwar sits with a heaviness she can’t ...

In ‘Santosh,’ a cop-corruption drama with shades of ‘Serpico,’ a woman rises in the ranks Jan. 10, 2025 ‘I do see poetry and rap as one and the same.’ ...

India is looking to tap into its geothermal energy potential by converting disused oil wells into clean energy assets, ...

Santosh Saini (Shahana Goswami), the heroine of the Indian cop drama Santosh, is a young widow whose husband, a police constable named Raman, was killed on duty. When we first meet her, she is ...

Well, Santosh isn’t just any film — this is the U.K.’s best international feature film pick for the Oscars. ... She’s a perpetrator, she’s a victim, she experiences their power, ...