Loev (film)

Loev

An image of Pandit and Ganesh embracing in a bed.

Netflix release poster
Directed by Sudhanshu Saria
Produced by Sudhanshu Saria
Arfi Lamba
Katharina Suckale
Jasleen Marwah
Screenplay by Sudhanshu Saria
Starring Dhruv Ganesh
Shiv Pandit
Siddharth Menon
Music by Tony Kakkar
Cinematography Sherri Kauk
Edited by Nitesh Bhatia
Production
company
Bombay Berlin Film Productions
Four Line Films
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
Running time
 92 minutes
Country India
Language Hinglish
Budget US$1 million (approx.)

Loev is a 2015 Indian romantic drama film written and directed by Sudhanshu Saria. Produced by Saria and the Bombay Berlin Film Productions, it stars Dhruv Ganesh and Shiv Pandit. The film focuses on the homosexual relationship between two friends (played by Ganesh and Pandit) that takes center stage during a weekend getaway to Western Ghats, India. It was the former's final film role, as he died during the post–production after suffering from tuberculosis. Siddharth Menon and Rishabh Chaddha play supporting roles in the film.

Saria conceived Loev's script while he was working on another project, and drew heavily from his personal experiences. It was eventually picked up for production despite Saria's own doubts on its viability. Principal photography took place at Mahabaleshwar, the UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Western Ghats in peninsular India, and Mumbai, in the summer of 2014. The film was shot within sixteen days by the cinematographer Sherri Kauk in 2K resolution. Made on a shoestring budget, the film relied on crowdfunding and cost–cutting measures to meet its production costs.

Loev had its world premiere at the 2015 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Upon its initial release, the film garnered generally positive reviews from film critics. It had its North American premiere at the 2016 South By Southwest Film Festival and premiered in India at the 2016 Mumbai International Film Festival, and was well received by the critics and audience alike. The script and the performances of Pandit and Ganesh were particularly praised. Commentators were also appreciative of the unconventional and fresh treatment of the taboo subject matter of same-sex relationships in India. The film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 2016 Tel Aviv International Film Festival. The distribution rights for Loev were acquired by Netflix and it was released on the platform on May 1, 2017.

Plot

Sahil (Ganesh), a young Mumbai–based musician, plans a weekend getaway with his childhood friend, Jai (Pandit), a successful New York based businessman. The trip coincides with the latter's business meeting Mumbai. Sahil plans a weekend getaway to the Western Ghats, and arrives at the airport to receive Jai. Unaware of Sahil's plans, Jai starts a casual conversation with him and learns that he is not entirely happy with his boyfriend, Alex (Menon). Sahil in turn derives that Jai is struggling with his mother adjusting to a foreign environment.

Sahil and Jai drive to Mahabaleshwar overnight, and upon arrival decide to visit the local market. Jai is amazed by Sahil's skill as a guitarist and suggests that he pursue a career as a full–time musician. Later, he gifts him a guitar during lunch. The two engage in several arguments and bicker about their plans throughout the trip, while enjoying each other's company nonetheless. Sahil is irked by Jai's indifferent behaviour and finds it annoying that he works even during the trip. Jai too is not pleased with Sahil's continuous badgering. One night, the two get into a heated argument over their differences. Later, Jai embraces Sahil in his bed and tries to kiss him. The latter resists, and asks Jai to go to sleep as they have to get up early the next morning.

The next morning, the two visit the Ghats as Sahil had planned. He takes Jai to an overhanging clifff, with a scenic view of Mahabaleshwar, where the two share a quiet moment. On returning to their resort, Jai offers to pay for the trip's expenses, to which Sahil agrees after some initial reluctance. The two return to a hotel in Mumbai for Jai's scheduled business meeting. At the hotel room, the two admit to their mutual attraction right before Jai has to leave for his meeting. Sahil interrupts Jai and his clients and embarrasses the latter with a romantic gesture in front of everyone. This leads to a confrontation between the two, during which Sahil accuses Jai of being scared of coming out to the world. On the contrary, Jai blames him for not reciprocating his affection from the beginning. The two kiss, but when Sahil tries to withdraw from him, Jai rapes him, only to immediately regret it. He apologises and tells Sahil that he doesn't have to stay any longer if he doesn't want to. However, Sahil decides to stay, but refrains from having a conversation with Sahil.

The two go ahead with their plans to meet Alex, who brings along his friend, Junior (Chaddha) to the hotel. The group discuss their lives over supper, which is cut short by an argument between Alex and Sahil over the former's irresponsible behaviour. The four head back to the hotel room to collect Sahil's belongings, as Jai plans to leave later that night. Alex notices the guitar and later forces Sahil to play for him, to which Sahil obliges with an original song. Alex dances with Jai, who looks even more impressed with Sahil's artistry. Alex offers to take back Sahil's belongings and give the two some more time together. When he leaves, Sahil and Jai embrace, but do not talk about anything that had happened.

At the airport, Jai is overwhelmed with guilt and asks Sahil to leave, to which he protests. Jai refutes his advances to reconcile, and tells him that they can never be together because they have vastly different lives. They part ways as a heartbroken Sahil watches him leave. As he is walking away into the airport, Jai sends a text message to Sahil saying that he loves him. Alex arrives at the airport to pick Sahil up, much to his surprise. He tries to make up for his mistakes by offering Sahil a heartfelt apology as the two drive back to their apartment.

Cast

Production

Development and casting

Pandit in a white T–shirt and camo jacket, looking away from the camera.
Shiv Pandit came across the film's script during a casual meeting with Sudhanshu Saria

Loev's script was penned by Sudhanshu Saria in the United States, when he was working on the screenplay of another film, I Am Here.[1] Describing the film as "small, fragile, honest", Saria said that through his endeavour he "tries to capture the silences and the things unsaid in male friendships".[2] He wrote Loev because he was unable to put together the financing for I Am Here.[3] At the time of the script's inception, Saria had no plan of making it into a feature film, as he believed that no investors or actors would want to be associated with a film that he thought would be censored or banned in its home country.[2] The plot of the film follows many personal experiences that Saria himself went through, growing up in the Indian hill town of Darjeeling, and later at the Ithaca Arts College, New York.[4]

Pre–production work for the film began in February 2014, when Katharina Suckale, Jasleen Marwah, and Arfi Lamba of the Bombay Berlin Film Production showed interest in adapting the script into a full–length feature film.[5][6] Saria said that the screenplay was written out of "deep shame and fear", and on completion was not pitched to any investors, but instead put away into a drawer.[4] The script was picked up by Suckale and Lamba; the duo agreed to co–produce Saria's directorial debut under the working title of Loev, a take on the word "love" itself.[4] The film was set in the director's hometown Mumbai, Maharashtra.[2] Saria said that the film's production team "needed local cooperation" and as the director he "needed locations [...] to be able to use their streets".[5]

Major parts of the script were written during the Supreme Court of India's ongoing hearing of the Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, criminalising same–sex relationships in India.[7] In the film's official release statement Saria talked about the environment that he worked in saying that, "it was in this India [referring to the Supreme Court judgement] that our actors, technicians, investors and supporters came together to make this film, working in absolute secrecy".[7] The dialogue was written in Hinglish, as described by Saria to be "the language I hear around me [in Mumbai]".[8][9] With a total runtime of 92 minutes, the film was pitched under the labels of Bombay Berlin Film Productions, and Four Line Films.[1][10]

The film stars Shiv Pandit and Dhruv Ganesh; the former came across the film's script during a casual meeting with Saria. In an interview with Daily News and Analysis, Pandit discussed the meeting between him and Saria, saying, "He had no desire to cast me, [...] because he thought I do only commercial films. I had to force it out of him. But when I heard it I found it interesting and we decided to do it".[11] Saria called Ganesh for the table read for the protagonist of the film, Sahil, and was greatly impressed by his approach to the character. However, Ganesh was apprehensive about playing the character, but after initial scepticism he agreed to play the role.[5] Siddharth Menon and Rishabh J. Chaddha play supporting roles in the film.[12] The film marked the last film role for Ganesh, as he died of tuberculosis in January 2015, while the film was in post-production.[4] The opening credits in the film's final cut honour his memory.[13]

Filming and post–production

A scenic view of a river valley in the Western Ghats.
Mahabaleshwar in the Western Ghats, India, was used as the backdrop for the location of the film

Principal photography began in the summer of 2014 and took place entirely in Mumbai and Mahabaleshwar, a small hilltown in the UNESCO World Heritage site of the Western Ghats, in the peninsular India.[2][4][14] American Film Institute alumni Sherri Kauk served as the director of photography for the film. Loev was filmed in a single schedule in a short span of 16 days. Saria said, "We had to plan well, be extremely frugal, count every penny and make sure it all ended up on the screen."[9][15]

With a modest budget of US$1 million, the production of Loev was funded partly by the production partners, and by private equity.[5] A crowdfunding campaign was started at the funding portal Indiegogo, raising an amount of approximately US$4,000.[16] In an interview with Manoj Sharma of Pandolin, a digital film magazine, Lamba talked about the struggle of funding the project saying that the investors backed out at the last-minute at more than one occasion.[17] The film's crew members financed the project from their own salaries to meet the cost of production.[5]

The filming was done rather discreetly, fearing opposition against the film's underlying subject matter of homosexuality.[18] Among the crew members, only a core group were aware of the details of the plot, and to the rest of the crew it was a road trip film, one identical to Dil Chahta Hai (2001). During the filming of a scene where Pandit kisses Ganesh in the outdoors, the crew members were taken aback as most of them were unaware of any romantic involvement among the two lead characters.[18] Pandit especially found the rape scene difficult to shoot, because of the emotional weight that it carried: "What I did to overcome my revulsion was to not stand judgment over my character Jai's action. I just went with how Jai reacted to the given situation."[19]

The film editing process began in June 2015; the team of editors was headed by Nitesh Bhatia, and the sound mixing was done by Pritam Das. Sweta Gupta was the film's art director, and the costumes were done by Rohit Chaturvedi. Tony Kakkar provided the soundtrack for the film.[20] An original track recorded by Kakkar, entitled "Ek Chaand", was released as part of the official soundtrack for the film.[21] It was released on May 4, 2017, under the label of Desi Music Factory on iTunes.[21] A two-and-a-half minute preview of the song was released on YouTube in the same month.[22]

Loev's entire editing and sound mixing process was completed on 25 November, after four months of post-production work.[16] The film's foreign rights were picked up by Loic Magneron's Wide Management, a Paris-based sales-production-distribution house.[23] The deal was finalised after a meeting between Magneron and Saria at the film's Tallinn premiere.[24] However, the distribution rights were withdrawn when the producers entered into negotiations with Netflix. The worldwide rights of the film were acquired by Netflix in April 2017.[25]

Themes and influences

Loev isn’t a tale of shantytowns like Slumdog Millionaire and features none of the exotic imagery seen in Gurinder Chadha's Bride and Prejudice. Instead it is a drama that explores the contours of love and friendship [...] Their topics of discussion aren’t poverty or religion but romantic and professional fulfillment.

–Steven Borowiec, The Los Angeles Times[15]

The themes of unrequited love and self–accepatnce are central to Loev, and as noted by such commentators as Aseem Chhabra, Zack Ford, and Subhash K. Jha the theme of sexuality takes a backseat to the aforementioned subjects.[26][27][28] Chhabra, a New York-based film writer and director noted that the film beautifully, "present[s] an emotional journey by characters who are gay but seem to be comfortable with themselves”.[15] Also, as expressed by Saria himself, the film was intended as a "universal story about attraction". He did not want to conform to a single definition for the film or the relationship between two lead characters.[15][29]

While Vox's Siddharth Naidu thought of the film as politically radical and emotionally raw, Aseem Chhabra called it the least bit political in another editorial for Rediff.com.[26][30] Freelance journalist Steven Borowiec agreed with the latter idea, writing that "the social context of same sex love in India remains mostly off-screen".[15] Writing for ThinkProgress Ford made note of the fact that although the socio-political backdrop, "is never explicitly mentioned, it’s alluded to throughout".[27] Addressing the same issue, Saria said that although Loev is not a political film, the act of making it was a political one. He said, "[W]hat started out as an intellectual act of protest quickly became something else. Love."[7] Jha, who was largely appreciative of the film, believed that it marked "a new beginning for cinema on unconstitutional love in India".[28]

While working in the United States, Saria familiarised himself with the independent American cinema, which greatly influenced his work.[1] He also listed such directors as the Dardenne brothers, Eric Rohmer and Hrishikesh Mukherjee as influential during his formative years as a filmmaker himself.[31] Critics and commentators drew similarities between Loev and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005), as explained by Jha that the similarity "in the way the rocky terrain is used to define the theme of forbidden love is palpable".[28] The film was thought to be visually and structurally similar to Andrew Haigh’s Weekend (2011), and Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together (1997), although Saria admitted to have never seen them.[4] However, Ford thought that Loev was more subtle in its portrayal of same–sex affection (when compared to Weekend), which made it "quite novel for Bollywood".[27]

Release

Loev initially premiered at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Estonia on 19 November 2015.[1] The film then travelled to various other film festivals all across Europe and Asia, including the Jeonju International Film Festival, South Korea, the Istanbul International Film Festival, Turkey, the Art Film Festival, Slovakia, and the Transilvania International Film Festival, Italy.[32] The North American premiere was screened on 12 March, for the "Visions" section at the 2016 South By SouthWest (SXSW) Film Festival.[33] Loev premiered at the LGBTQ film festivals across the world including the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, the BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, and the Frameline Film Festival.[32] The film won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 2016 Tel Aviv International Film Festival.[34]

Loev had its premiere in India at the "India Gold" segment of the 2016 Mumbai Film Festival, where it was met with positive response from critics.[18][9] It was also screened at the 2016 International Film Festival of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram as well.[34] Loev was released on May 1, 2017 on Netflix.[35] A new poster was unveiled for the film's Netflix release; it was designed by an Indian-based designing house, Pigeon & Co and featured the two lead actors.[36] Shortly after the film's release, Rajeev Masand hosted Saria on CNN-News18, and organised a roundtable discussion for the lead actors, Saria and the film's producers.[37] The film had a special screening in May 2017, in Mumbai, which was attended by the entire cast and crew and Bollywood personalities including Richa Chaddha, Kalki Koechlin, Rannvijay Singh, Bejoy Nambiar, Shruti Seth, and Meiyang Chang among others.[38]

Critical reception

Domestic

Loev received positive response from critics at the Mumbai Film Festival. Manika Verma from the MAMI Young Critics Lab gave a largely positive review calling the film a "breather", and stating that it "doesn't pander and conform to the stereotypes, a trap very easy to fall into."[39] The Hindu critic Namrata Joshi, remarked, Loev "adds a new dimension to gay cinema", adding that the endeavour was, "a deceptively simple yet nuanced and heartfelt take on the eternal relationship conundrum".[6] Praising the chemistry of the leading cast, Joshi said that Pandit was "all solidity and strength", and Ganesh "tenderness and vulnerability".[6] A reviewer at the International Film Festival of Kerala, writing for The New Indian Express called the film "a tender love story between two men, an aspiring musician Sahil and wall street dealmaker Jai."[40] Film critic Subhash K. Jha gave the film four stars, defining it not as a gay film but an "unforgettable love story".[28] Highlighting the cinematography, direction and the performances from Ganesh and Pandit, he described the film as one that not only "re–defines love and passion in the context of the Indian reality, it is a new beginning for cinema on unconstitutional love in India." DeepalI Singh of Daily News and Analysis also praised the film in her review, with particular emphasis on the cinematography. She thought that there were several scenes in the film that the viewers will "think about long after the movie is over". She was also appreciative of Ganesh's performance.[41]

International

A wistful, meandering gay love story, Loev is very unsensational by the standards of LGBT cinema produced elsewhere in the world. But in India, where homosexuality is punishable by law, this gentle film is quietly revolutionary.

–Wendy Ide, Screen International[12]

Loev garnered praise from critics at film festivals all across the world; commentators were largely laudatory of the film's sensitive treatment of the theme of homosexuality and the performances of the cast.[18][42] Reviewing the film at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Shelagh Rowan-Legg of Screen Anarchy praised the refreshing concept of the film, different from the usual cinema associated with India: "Loev examines the personal and the political, [...] in a sensitive yet open portrait of love and sexuality". She further called the cast "tailor-made", lauding Pandit in particular, saying, "Pandit perfectly times the slow release of his frustration, [...] is both appalling and believable".[43] Finding Ganesh to be "a charismatic presence on screen", Screen International's Wendy Ide—less impressed with the cast's performances—stated, "naturalistic acting style notwithstanding, there is something not entirely persuasive about the relationship between Jai and Sahil".[12] In a 4/5 star review at the BFI Flare Film Festival, Eddie Falvey praised Loev's delicate handling of the subject matter, saying that the "simple but striking image of two men attempting awkward intimacy in a single bed epitomises the tragic restrictions that are placed on love throughout the world." She deemed it vital filmmaking from a "powerful new voice."[44]

Loev was well received in North America; it was the first Indian film to be screened at the SXSW, with Brooke Corso of The Macguffin stating that the beautiful and heartbreaking film shines when, "it focuses on what is said when the characters aren't speaking, and what is avoided when they do".[45] Matt Shiverdecker of Austin American-Statesman was largely laudatory of the film at the same event as well, dubbing it as a "small miracle". He praised the added realism, unlike the clichéd storybook romance. He attributed the film's success to its actors and the beautiful scenery.[46] Siddhant Adlakha of Birth Movies Death called Loev a "miniscule film of miraculous construction" and "a melancholy tale where questions have no easy answers, [...] but one where bliss, even momentary, feels infinite".[47]

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