Split Wide Open
Synopsis
Welcome to India 2000! Meet KP! He's a hustler who sells water to the poor and Evian to the rich. His adopted sister Didi stalks the traffic lights and sells flowers to survive.
Nan (Nandita) an expatriate Indian from London, hosts an exploitation television show where people come and in darkness talk about their secret sexual lives. The confessions are funny, kinky and sad.
Welcome to Split Wide Open.
KP incurs the wrath of the Water Mafia don he works for, when he brokers a deal independently and is brutally punished. He returns home dispossessed of his belongings, his tenement and finds Didi missing.
Television and the streets of Bombay meet when the worlds of KP and Nan collide. Searching for Didi on the mean streets of Bombay, KP learns that lost innocence can't be regained while Nan discovers that television is helpless against the tides and temptations of the city. Until a guest on the show offers a clue about the missing Didi.
In search of Didi, KP gets enmeshed in different worlds from Nandita's show. Several stories emerge to form a vivid tapestry of the city. Nan's show becomes popular but the sensational confessions on her voyeuristic TV show are removed from reality it's still television.
Sex and poverty mingle to question our notions of morality. Split Wide Open is about the new Indian and the profound changes taking place as the country tries to redefine its culture for the next century.
Details
- Year
- 2000
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 104 mins
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
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Dev Benegal
- Producer
- Manmohan Shetty, Suresh Thomas
- Director of Photography
- Sukumar Jatania
- Sound
- Vikram Joglekar
- Composer
- Nitin Sawhney
- Principal cast
- Rahul Bose, Laila Rouass, Farida Haider Mulla
- Executive Editor
- Renu Saluja Screen Writer: Farukkh Dhondy
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Tropicfilm #10-28/29 Janki Kutir Juhu Road Juhu Bombay 400 049 India Tel: 9122 610 0284 Fax: 9122 610 4840 mail@tropicfilm.com
Sales Company
BMG India Ltd Contact: Bashir Sheikh 2nd Floor, 16th Road Khar (W), Mumbai 400052 India Tel: 9122 6048545 Fax: 9122 6460154
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