SANTOSH 2024
by
Sandhya Suri
Shahana plays a young widow who gets compensatory appointment as a cop in place of her dead husband. This eases her life a bit which had become quite unbearable. She works hard to earn respect from her fellow cops and jumps headlong into a rape-cum-murder of a Dalit girl. The film is quite realistic in how it captures everyday discrimination, societal attitudes, verbal effrontery and struggles of daily life. Caste, gender, religion are all invoked. Even as a police procedural, the film's slow burn process works quite well. Rather than going rebellious against every sharp jibe, Shahana expresses herself non-verbally which is rather exceptionally done by her. The film does not enfold as a sermon or an indictment, rather as a mirror image of the society we live in.
The chemistry between Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar, who plays a senior cop, is the central axis on which the film stands. Any louder, and the project would have sunk. Did I smell any propaganda? Probably not!
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