The incredibly accomplished Shahana Goswami is in the news for her new film Santosh going to the Oscars as the UK’s Official entry into the Oscars. In an exclusive interview, the actress speaks of this unprecedented feat achieved by a film featuring an Indian and crew. Are you surprised at Santosh getting so much global attention? I, actually I'm not surprised by the attention because these kinds of things, I think when you team the word Oscar with anything, people tend to get excited.
So I'm not surprised at that. I think plus additionally, in this case, I think there's a lot of conversation around the fact of the surprise element of it being a film set in India with Indian actors and everything, but it going as a UK entry. But yeah, it's good.
I feel like it's great that the film has come into so many people's consciousness just by virtue of this. So I'm really happy for the project and for whatever attention it's garnering through whatever means. And also the fact that it does get an opportunity to be selected for a larger platform of something like the Oscars, which can then propel the film, the people involved in the film, the stories, the subjects of the subject of the film to another level.
How did you bag the principal part in Santosh? So, the casting director of the film is basically Mukesh Chhabra. So, Mukesh and actor Sanjay Bishnoi, who's also in the film, they happened to have come for the screening of the premiere of Zwigato. And I think the next day, Sanjay g.