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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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