Split Wide Open (1999)
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The sophomore feature effort of documentary filmmaker Dev Benegal is this portrait of the changing culture of modern-day Bombay. KP (Rahul Bose) is a small-time hustler working for the "Water Mafia," which sells well water from poor neighborhoods to the rich. He adores his ten-year-old… More The sophomore feature effort of documentary filmmaker Dev Benegal is this portrait of the changing culture of modern-day Bombay. KP (Rahul Bose) is a small-time hustler working for the "Water Mafia," which sells well water from poor neighborhoods to the rich. He adores his ten-year-old adopted sister, who ekes out a meager living selling flowers at traffic intersections. When KP runs afoul of the Water Godfather, he is promptly dumped from the ring and beaten to a pulp. More frighteningly, his sister mysteriously disappears. Meanwhile, British-educated Nandita (Laila Rouass), who has just returned to India, hosts a popular talk show in which anonymous participants reveal their most intimate sexual secrets. As KP continues his desperate search for his missing sibling, he and Nandita begin an affair that never could have happened during India's more tradition-minded past. Split Wide Open was screened at the 1999 Venice Film Festival and the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Dev Benegal
- Genres
- Drama
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Sep 13, 1999 Wide
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Cast
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Rahul Bose
as KP
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Laila Rouass
as Nandita
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Shivaji Satham
as Shiv
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Ayesha Dharker
as Leela
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Farida Haider Mulla
as Didi
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Shiv Paul
as Bobby
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Kiran Nagarkar
as Brother Bono
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Arti Gosavi
as Arti
