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Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Before Dhadak 2, delve into these bittersweet tales of love and heartbreak
Not all love stories are meant to be completed; some are meant to last for a brief time but still manage to tug at our hearts with their bittersweet narratives that mirror reality. Despite a tragic ending, many Hindi movies steal the spotlight with their mesmerising songs, poetic dialogues, and heart-wrenching separation. As you wait for another intense tale of love and heartbreak with Dhadak 2 (releasing on August 1) and its fresh pairing of Triptii Dimri and Siddhant Chaturvedi, let's revisit some iconic romantic drama films that showcase the star-crossed lovers battling their twisted fates. From Salman Khan's Tere Naam to Ranveer Singh's Lootera, here are some unconventional love stories that are all available to stream on OTTplay Premium. Dhadak 2 Tragic but unforgettable love stories Tere Naam Salman Khan's cult classic romance film features Radhe as a hot-headed, rowdy man who falls for a sweet and innocent college fresher (played by Bhoomika Chawla). However, their love story takes a teary turn when Radhe becomes mentally ill due to a tragic fate. Ek Villain If you're looking for a captivating blend of love and revenge, Mohit Suri's Ek Villain delves into poignant themes of love, heartbreak, and loss. Featuring Sidharth Malhotra as a criminal named Guru and Shraddha Kapoor as a free-spirited girl named Aisha, Ek Villain is a perfect romantic tragedy to binge-watch this monsoon. Rockstar Ranbir Kapoor delivers a power-packed performance in Imtiaz Ali's musical romance film. He plays an aspiring musician whose life takes a turn when he follows his dreams but embarks on a self-destructive path after losing his love. Nargis Fakhri plays Ranbir's love interest, Heer. A tale of love, dreams, and heartbreak—Rockstar has it all to keep you hooked. Ghajini Aamir Khan's cult classic action film is not just about vengeance and bloody fights but also weaves an intense love story with an emotionally charged climax. The story revolves around a quirky girl who mistakes a rich man for someone else. They fall in love but soon experience a tragic fate when the girl is killed by a group of goons and the man suffers from retrograde amnesia. He then embarks on a furious revenge mission to avenge the death of his girlfriend. Lootera Seasoned director Vikramaditya Motwane brings this period romantic drama to life with the stellar duo of Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha. The story centers around a high-class aristocrat's daughter, who falls for an enigmatic archaeologist. However, there is a secret identity twist that changes their dynamics.
New York Post
11-06-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
College students, agitators and a Hamptons brat among 86 arrested at rowdy NYC anti-ICE protest
They shouldn't have trouble making bail. Cops cuffed 86 demonstrators at a rowdy anti-ICE rally in Lower Manhattan Tuesday, among them the daughter of a Moroccan actor, a self-proclaimed poet from an upscale college and a coed whose family owns a posh home in the Hamptons, The Post has learned. 'My sense is, the vast majority of the 2,500 people that were there, were there to protest peacefully,' NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Fox 5 News. 'There was a smaller group of a few hundred where we did have to make arrests. Some of them were looking for trouble.' Advertisement 6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. The protest in Foley Square against deportation arrests by federal immigration agents began peacefully but grew increasingly violent shortly after 5 p.m., with the mob hurling bottles at cops and throwing traffic cones into traffic, an NYPD spokesperson said. Of the 86 who were charged, 52 were issued summonses for disorderly conduct and other minor charges, while 34 were arrested and charged with more serious crimes, including felony assault. Advertisement Among those busted was Vega Gullette, a 19-year-old student at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers who describes herself as 'a Moroccan-American writer, artist, and lover of junk.' The teen, who was charged with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct, is the daughter of Sean Gullette, an actor, screenwriter and director whose credits include the Darren Aronofsky films 'Requiem for a Dream' and 'Pi.' 6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. Carlos Chiossone/Zuma / 6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. Aristide Economopoulos Advertisement Also among those charged was Rachel Schreiber, 22, of Brooklyn, who is facing resisting arrest, reckless endangerment and attempted assault charges in the melee. Records show her parents own a $3 million home in Westhampton Beach. 'I'm not giving any reaction,' her mother told The Post Wednesday. 'I'm not ready to talk about this with the press.' Some of the pinched protesters are no strangers to Big Apple demonstrations. Advertisement Robert Mills, 40, who was charged with reckless endangerment and issued a disorderly conduct citation in Tuesday's scuffle, was charged with obstructing governmental administration in April during an anti-Israeli protest in Brooklyn, the Jewish News Syndicate reported. 6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. REUTERS 6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. REUTERS Tabitha Howell, 40 — who was cited for disorderly conduct — was among those injured when a crazed Queens woman drove into a Manhattan Black Lives matter protest in 2020. 'It's one thing to face physical recovery,' Howell, who said she suffered five bulging discs in her back and a traumatic brain injury in the incident, told The Post at the time. 'It's another to try to process what happened mentally and emotionally.' Meanwhile, Tisch and Mayor Eric Adams gave assurances this week that the city will not devolve in to chaos like Los Angeles, where ICE agents sparked outbreaks of violence that required the National Guard to step in to try to restore peace. 6 The NYPD said 86 people were charged in a rowdy anti-ICE demonstration in Lower Manhattan on Tuesday. Meir Chaimowitz/NurPhoto/Shutterstock Advertisement 'Watching what was going on in California, I spent the weekend on the phone with our federal partners in New York City — the head of the FBI in New York, federal protective services, homeland security investigations,' Tisch told MSNBC's 'Morning Joe. Additional reporting by Kevin Sheehan
Scoop
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Scoop
Drain Announce New Album '...Is Your Friend'
Hardcore Santa Cruz, CA trio DRAIN are back and announcing their new album '...IS YOUR FRIEND' today, due for release on November 7th via Epitaph Records. After crushing all expectations with 2023's 'LIVING PROOF' and spending the subsequent year on the road, the new record finds these best friends playing at the top of their game and flexing their instinctive chemistry. Leading with bouncy hardcore banger 'Nights Like These,' vocalist Sammy Ciaramitaro pauses to discuss the lifelong goals that have now become Drain's average Tuesday: 'Over the last decade of doing DRAIN, I've been able to see the world, meet incredible people, experience all sorts of incredible highs and even a couple of lows - but most importantly, I got to do all of those things with my best friends. No matter how much we accomplish and how big we grow - we are still just a couple of friends who get to play music together, make memories all over the world, and we are SO aware of how lucky we are to do it. THAT is what "Nights Like These" is about.' The Derek Rathbun-directed music video splits between footage of the band's rowdy live show in 2025 and fast-forwards to them displaying the same onstage energy thirty years later but utilizing the members' dads and uncle as stunt doubles. 'When we were coming up with ideas for this video, I thought it would be so cool to try and make us look old and play a show as seniors,' Ciaramitaro explained. 'We could have gone the route of using make-up and practical effects, but then it clicked in my brain...I am going to look just like my dad when I get old - I should just use him.' Enthused about witnessing his 61-year-old father stage dive for the first time, he adds, 'The fact that we got to share this special night with the people who shaped us to be the men we are today - means SO much to all of us. I hope that everyone enjoys watching it as much as we all enjoyed getting to make it happen. Shout out to Stu, Frankie, and Donny!' There's no other hardcore band like DRAIN. The Santa Cruz band is an institution in their genre and an affable neighbor to their adjacent ones. Punks love Drain. Metalheads love DRAIN. Haters can't help but love DRAIN. DRAIN is for everyone. Well, venue security guards might not love DRAIN. But to everyone else: DRAIN …Is Your Friend. DRAIN (Ciaramitaro, guitarist Cody Chavez, and drummer Tim Flegal) formed back in 2014 and cut their teeth in Santa Cruz's fertile DIY hardcore scene. COVID lockdown couldn't stop their 2020 debut, California Cursed, from making waves, and their 2023 follow-up, LIVING PROOF, hit the hardcore scene like a Cali beach during hurricane season -- a torrential classic. Since then, DRAIN have blazed through hundreds of shows worldwide: headlining festivals, taking their friends and heroes on tour, and even playing arenas with Blink-182. Regardless of whether they're opening for pop-punk jukeboxes like Neck Deep or grabbing the stage-dive torch from Terror, DRAIN's only goal is to make the crowd go buck wild. With their third full-length album and second for Epitaph Records, …IS YOUR FRIEND, DRAIN had two primary goals in mind: to capture their quintessential live essence on recording, and to write new songs that'll make their next shows even crazier. Their previous albums were written before DRAIN were on the road all year, and they spent the last few hundred nights onstage making note of which songs their fans respond best to. …IS YOUR FRIEND is designed to maximize their audience's shit-losing abilities. Its ten songs include the heaviest mosh parts, the catchiest choruses, the tastiest thrash riffs, and the most scream-able lyrics DRAIN have ever written. Producer Jon Markson (The Story So Far, Drug Church, One Step Closer) tracked the whole album live -- 100% real-time drums, no metronome, no programmed bullshit. It sounds the way DRAIN was always meant to: crisp, serrated, animated. Over the years, they have gotten bigger, their crowds have gotten more diverse, and their music has become more eclectic. But Ciaramitaro underscores what this album makes abundantly clear: their founding ethos remains unchanged. 'DRAIN is your friend, DRAIN was your friend, DRAIN will forever be your friend.' …IS YOUR FRIEND Tracklisting 1. Stealing Happiness From Tomorrow 2. Living In A Memory 3. Scared Of Everything And Nothing 4. Nothing But Love 5. Can't Be Bothered 6. Loudest In The Room 7. Nights Like These 8. Who's Having Fun? 9. Darkest Days 10. Until Next Time
Sydney Morning Herald
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Sydney Morning Herald
I just read Jacinda Ardern's memoir. No wonder she didn't last
To be honest, I really looked forward to reading Ardern's memoir – until I got to her dedication: to the criers, worriers and huggers. Dear God, I thought, I'm going to be inundated with all the feels and none of the facts. By the time I got to the end, I was so engrossed by all those feelings, the commitment to empathy, to listening, to kindness, that none of the rest of it mattered. Who cares why Winston Peters picked Labour in 2017? Does politics really matter? Isn't being a good person what's really key, whether you are in Beehives or bear pits? But by page 60, I've cried twice. By the book's end, I've laughed, wept and was extremely proud of Neve, the child of Ardern and husband Clarke Gayford. Born in Ardern's first year as prime minister and who must be close to seven now, Neve asks her mother what we all really wanted to know: Why did she leave her job as prime minister after six years? One thing is clear in this book. Ardern does not shy away from talking about the emotional impact of leading a nation through a massacre, through floods, through the COVID-19 pandemic, through the insanity of conspiracy theorists. That cumulative burden is the reason – but not the only reason. 'Women shouldn't have to choose – the way our mothers so often did – between being good at their profession and being a good mother, or daughter,' she writes. 'There should be support networks, a village, whatever you call it, that can help them be all of those things without completely losing themselves in the process.' It is surprising to me, though, that the book does not really detail the relentless hatred to which Ardern was subjected, particularly after the pandemic. As New Zealand academic Suze Wilson has documented over time: 'A troubling feature of the commentary about New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has been its abusive, violent, sexist and misogynistic tenor.' There is the odd anecdote, a particularly useless male politician, trying to get Ardern to weigh in on gender, a number of people making irrelevant comments about her appearance, media commentators. But don't think for one minute that Ardern is all sweetness and light. She doesn't criticise too many people, but for David Seymour, she makes an exception. She is no fan of Seymour, New Zealand's freshly appointed deputy prime minister. He leads the ACT Party, a kind of libertarian hotchpotch. Her first real interaction with him is in 2022 when he caves in to the requests of a 'freedom' convoy to meet with a politician. Ardern has already refused. Her view? 'How could I send a message that if you disagree with something, you can illegally occupy the grounds of parliament and then have your demands met?' Later, she writes, he was the only MP to vote against banning semi-automatic weapons after the mosque massacres. But in the months after the convoy, after a rowdy question time in parliament, her press secretary, Andrew Campbell, comes to her office: 'So, today in the House when you sat down after your questions ended, it seems your mic was still on ... and it seems to have picked up your voice as you called David Seymour an arrogant prick.' Loading Phew, she thinks. In her mind, she called him much worse. I'm surprised at how well written it is, how it balances humour and pathos, kindness and hardiness – and I can't find a hint of a ghostwriter, although many thanks to editors. But after reading this, I'm not surprised she gave up after six years. Too hard for anyone really human. She has advice though for people who want to be politicians. It's about humility, empathy and more. 'The things you thought would cripple you will in fact make you stronger, make you better. They will give you a different kind of power, and make you a leader that this world, with all its turmoil, might just need.'
The Age
02-06-2025
- Politics
- The Age
I just read Jacinda Ardern's memoir. No wonder she didn't last
To be honest, I really looked forward to reading Ardern's memoir – until I got to her dedication: to the criers, worriers and huggers. Dear God, I thought, I'm going to be inundated with all the feels and none of the facts. By the time I got to the end, I was so engrossed by all those feelings, the commitment to empathy, to listening, to kindness, that none of the rest of it mattered. Who cares why Winston Peters picked Labour in 2017? Does politics really matter? Isn't being a good person what's really key, whether you are in Beehives or bear pits? But by page 60, I've cried twice. By the book's end, I've laughed, wept and was extremely proud of Neve, the child of Ardern and husband Clarke Gayford. Born in Ardern's first year as prime minister and who must be close to seven now, Neve asks her mother what we all really wanted to know: Why did she leave her job as prime minister after six years? One thing is clear in this book. Ardern does not shy away from talking about the emotional impact of leading a nation through a massacre, through floods, through the COVID-19 pandemic, through the insanity of conspiracy theorists. That cumulative burden is the reason – but not the only reason. 'Women shouldn't have to choose – the way our mothers so often did – between being good at their profession and being a good mother, or daughter,' she writes. 'There should be support networks, a village, whatever you call it, that can help them be all of those things without completely losing themselves in the process.' It is surprising to me, though, that the book does not really detail the relentless hatred to which Ardern was subjected, particularly after the pandemic. As New Zealand academic Suze Wilson has documented over time: 'A troubling feature of the commentary about New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has been its abusive, violent, sexist and misogynistic tenor.' There is the odd anecdote, a particularly useless male politician, trying to get Ardern to weigh in on gender, a number of people making irrelevant comments about her appearance, media commentators. But don't think for one minute that Ardern is all sweetness and light. She doesn't criticise too many people, but for David Seymour, she makes an exception. She is no fan of Seymour, New Zealand's freshly appointed deputy prime minister. He leads the ACT Party, a kind of libertarian hotchpotch. Her first real interaction with him is in 2022 when he caves in to the requests of a 'freedom' convoy to meet with a politician. Ardern has already refused. Her view? 'How could I send a message that if you disagree with something, you can illegally occupy the grounds of parliament and then have your demands met?' Later, she writes, he was the only MP to vote against banning semi-automatic weapons after the mosque massacres. But in the months after the convoy, after a rowdy question time in parliament, her press secretary, Andrew Campbell, comes to her office: 'So, today in the House when you sat down after your questions ended, it seems your mic was still on ... and it seems to have picked up your voice as you called David Seymour an arrogant prick.' Loading Phew, she thinks. In her mind, she called him much worse. I'm surprised at how well written it is, how it balances humour and pathos, kindness and hardiness – and I can't find a hint of a ghostwriter, although many thanks to editors. But after reading this, I'm not surprised she gave up after six years. Too hard for anyone really human. She has advice though for people who want to be politicians. It's about humility, empathy and more. 'The things you thought would cripple you will in fact make you stronger, make you better. They will give you a different kind of power, and make you a leader that this world, with all its turmoil, might just need.'
