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  1. Split Wide Open is a 1999 Indian film directed by Dev Benegal.It is his second feature film after English, August (1994). The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged when sex and poverty collide.

  2. Nov 23, 2020 · If you split a rock or a log or a fruit open, you can see what is inside. If you split something wide open then the inside is revealed even more. The author is using a metaphor. Probably it means that the knowledge the person had, was broken into fragments. What they had always believed to be reality turned out not to be true.

  3. Split Wide Open is a 1999 Indian film directed by Dev Benegal.It is his second feature film after English, August (1994). The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged when sex and poverty collide.

  4. www.indiatoday.in › magazine › society-and-the-artsThe movie review - India Today

    Apr 3, 2000 · Split Wide Open is an ambitious and original take and Benegal steers well part of the way. But the characters are always kept at a Brechtian distance and despite the overwhelming tragedy of the proceedings, it's hard to feel anything for them.

    • Society & The Arts
  5. Split Wide Open: Directed by Dev Benegal. With Rahul Bose, Laila Rouass, Shivaji Satam, Farida Haider Mulla. A search for a lost street girl amid exposés of modern sexual behavior in Bombay and a water Mafia in the city, this is a real 'split wide open' of the Indian glamour capital.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Dev Benegal
    • 2001-07-25
  6. Sep 1, 1999 · Split Wide Open is a 1999 Indian film directed by Dev Benegal. It is his second feature film after English, August (1994). The film primarily deals with the Water conflicts in the slums of Bombay, and paedophilia, and also looks at the subversive sexuality in modern India and how the notions of morality are challenged when sex and poverty collide.

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  8. With Split Wide Open, a film that makes wonderful use of the wide screen, Benegal reveals the dark side of India’s hypocritical sexual morality. The title refers to a popular TV talk show that looks at viewers’ deep sexual secrets under the lamp. Protagonist KP sells water in the streets of Bombay.