Loev is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by
Sudhanshu Saria. It stars Dhruv Ganesh and Shiv Panditt (pictured) as
two friends who set off to the Western Ghats for a weekend trip.
Focusing on their complex emotional and sexual relationship, the film
drew heavily from Saria's personal experiences. Its title is a
deliberate misspelling of and is pronounced like the word "love". The
cinematographer Sherri Kauk shot the film in the summer of 2014 in
Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats in peninsular India, and in Mumbai.
Loev had its world premiere at the 2015 Tallinn Black Nights Film
Festival in Estonia, its North American premiere at the 2016 South by
Southwest Film Festival in Texas and its Indian premiere at the 2016
Mumbai International Film Festival. It won the Audience Award at the
2016 Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival. Ganesh died from
tuberculosis prior to the film's release. Loev was released on Netflix
on 1 May 2017.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loev>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1802:
Henry Hacking killed the Aboriginal Australian resistance
fighter Pemulwuy after Philip Gidley King ordered that he be brought in
dead or alive.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemulwuy>
1919:
First Red Scare: The anarchist followers of Luigi Galleani set
off eight bombs in eight cities across the United States.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_United_States_anarchist_bombings>
1967:
Benno Ohnesorg, a German university student, was killed in West
Berlin while protesting against the visit of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
of Iran, sparking the formation of the militant 2 June Movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_June_Movement>
1994:
The Royal Air Force suffered its worst peacetime disaster when
a Chinook helicopter crashed on the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, killing
all 29 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
rubicon:
1. A limit that when exceeded, or an action that when taken, cannot be
reversed.
2. (card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: a score which, if not
achieved by a losing player, increases the player's penalty.
3. (transitive, card games) Especially in bezique and piquet: to defeat
a player who has not achieved the rubicon.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rubicon>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd
treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown.
--Thomas Hardy
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardy>