Sandhya Suri’s acclaimed Hindi film 'Santosh', starring Shahana Goswami, has been selected by the British Academy as the UK's submission to the Oscars in the international feature film category. The crime thriller created a buzz when it was screened in the Un Certain Regard competition in Cannes earlier this year. UK won the 2024 Academy Award for best international feature for the very first time with Jonathan Glazer’s 'The Zone of Interest'.

British-Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri has directed Santosh. She is best known for her documentaries "I for India' (2005) and 'Around India with a Movie Camera' (2018). The film is essentially Indian, set in rural northern India, where newly-widowed Santosh inherits her late husband’s job as a police constable. When an underage girl from the underprivileged section is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation.