Santosh

Pitch

In a rural region of northern India, after the death of her husband, Santosh inherited his job and became a police woman, as decreed by the law. When she was called to the scene of the crime following the murder of a young woman from an inferior caste, she found herself submerged in a complicated investigation alongside the charismatic Inspector Sharma, who took the policewoman under her wing. “General themes are intertwined in the film : caste, religious intolerance, misogyny, corruption, violence. I simply wanted to portray a place where all of that exists on a daily basis… Sharma sees herself at Santosh’s age, when she joined the police force and experienced the same isolation and humiliation on the part of her male colleagues. She developed feminist sensitivity in her own way, with a rhetoric which she uses in her speech at the press conference. She’s a strange, complicated character, ultimately very enigmatic. We wonder if she really believes her own rhetoric.” Sandhya Suri