Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture Podcast
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Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture Podcast
क्वीन इज डेड. Movies, the universe and everything. We come to pop culture with an Indian perspective and want to share it with the world. These are the voyages of the podcast Queen is Dead!
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Indie Indian Cinema Round-Up | Homebound, Sabar Bonda, Humans in the Loop & Jugnuma #166
August and September were the lucky months for some Indian cinephiles who crave an alternate form of cinema (i.e., indie) to the mainstream one they h...
BEST of 2025 (SO FAR) - Part 1 | Badass Ravi Kumar & everything else! #165
We're 3 months late to the BEST OF (SO FAR) party because, well, just.
The format we've been using for the past two years is as fo...
The Highs and Lows of Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest #164
Amartya and Dhruv had been desperately waiting for Spike Lee's latest film to release, only because they wanted an excuse to go back and revisit Akira...
WORST of 2025 (SO FAR) | Badass Ravi Kumar & 5 more! #163
Long gone are the days when Dhruv and Sanjeet talked about QID not being a platform for ranting about films we hate.
What was supp...
Taiwanese New Wave & The Value of Slow Cinema | Taipei Story | Vive L'Amour | Millennium Mambo #161
In this very special episode, Dhruv welcomes back Prakhar Patidar (previously appeared on the "All We Imagine as Light" ep!) to discuss the Taiwanese...
Ari Aster's Eddington - THE Neo-Classical Western FOR this Decade #160
It's another Ari Aster movie discussion -- something we didn't think we would do after our "Beau Is Afraid" experience.
BUT -- "Ed...
Coolie (2025) - Who is at fault? | Also, Exorcism of War 2 #159
Hello, Hello, Hello!
In this new episode, Amartya, Sanjeet, and Cris discuss the new Lokesh Kanagaraj directorial starring Super S...
David Lynch's Wild At Heart | The Strange Story (Part 4) #158
Dhruv and Cris follow Laura Dern's Sandy (from "Blue Velvet") out of her cheerfully dreamy Lumberton suburbia into the -- at first, hellishly garish,...
28 Years Later - A Molotov Cocktail of Formal Experimentation and Narrative Subversion #157
Hello, Hello, Hello
In the latest episode of QID, Dhruv invites the creator, Arjun Sivakumar, and regular guest-cum-host of the "C...
James Gunn's Superman - The Comic Bookiest Comic Book Movie Ever Made (for better & much worse) #156
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! No - It's (a new) QID Episode!
Hello, Hello, Hello!
In this new episode, Amartya &...
Materialists, Past Lives & The Celine Song Debate #155
Hello, Hello, Hello,
In this episode, "Past Lives" skeptics Cris (taking Dhruv's place) and Aryan invite "Past Lives" lover-for-li...
David Lynch's Blue Velvet | The Strange Story (Part 3) #154
After stumbling through the industrial hellscapes of Pennsylvania and Victorian-era England, Dhruv, Cris, and Arijit find themselves -- somewhat mirac...
Mission Impossible VII & VIII: or, How We Learnt to Start Reckoning with the Super Seriousness of Mr. Scientology #153
Hello, Hello, Hello,
This is -- arguably -- the only sane discussion we have had on the "MI" franchise, courtesy -- the presence o...
Mission Impossible IV, 5 & VI: or, How we Learnt to Start Worrying for Mr. Scientology (via Benji & Ilsa) #152
Hello, Hello, Hello,
Dhruv returns -- more out of necessity than choice -- to try and bring some semblance back to the "MI" ep dis...
Mission Impossible I, 2 & III: or, How We Learnt to Stop Worrying & Love Mr. Scientology #151
Hello, Hello, Hello,
A more than usually embittered Varun Bhakay "moderates" this episode in which everything from his recent inab...
David Lynch's The Elephant Man | The Strange Story (Part 2) #150
Dhruv and Cris take a minor detour from the endlessly mysterious world(s) of David Lynch to a somewhat more familiar one in their second (of they don'...
David Lynch's Eraserhead | The Strange Story (Part I) #149
Dhruv and Cris are entering the endlessly mysterious world(s) of David Lynch for the first time (of many!) this year. And joining them, in his very fi...
Bollywood's Artless Trash vs. Artful Trash | Nadaaniyan | Badass Ravikumar | Loveyapa #148
It's here (again) - The type of episode we don't necessarily like to produce but really had to, just to convert the time wasted watching Dharmatic Ent...
Best International Films of 2024! | The Substance, Anora, Nickel Boys, Queer, I Saw the TV Glow, & many more! | #147
In this episode, Dhruv, Aryan, and Cris discuss their favorite Non-Indian (English & Foreign Language!) Films of The Year in the same format in which...
Anora & The Humanist Cinema of Sean Baker | The Burden of Representation Cont... #146
In what can be described as an episode exclusively inspired by the success of (and the subsequent backlash to) Sean Baker's "Anora" at this year's Aca...
Luca Guadagnino's Queer & Call Me By Your Name | The Burden of (Queer) Representation #145
In what can be described as an episode exclusively inspired as a response to the exclusion of "Queer" and "Challengers" in this year's Academy Awards,...
Best Indian Films of 2024! | Vaazhai, Kottukkaali, Kishkindha Kaandam, Merry Christmas & many more! #144
In this episode, Dhruv and Amartya invite Devi (@film.trance) and Adithiyan (@curioseradithiyan) to discuss their favorite Indian films of the year in...
Black Warrant (2025) - A Great Indian Netflix Show in This Economy?! #143
Hello, Hello, Hello,
In this bite-sized episode (relative to the episodes we have already released and will release in the coming...
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu: Forever in the Shadow of F. W. Murnau and Werner Herzog's Nosferatwos #142
Hello, Hello, Hello,
This is the second part of the discussion we had on Robert Eggers!
Here, Dhruv – joined...
Robert Eggers & His Acutely Authentic Brand of Nightmarish Cinema #141
Hello, Hello, Hello!
In what is another one of our director retrospective episodes, Dhruv, Amartya, and Aryan (from America) talk...
The Most Disappointing Films of 2024 | Disclaimer, Emilia Pérez, Agra & 3 more! #140
Hello, Hello, Hello
Dhruv and Amartya’s first foray into this type of episode – that we have consciously avoided up until now – co...
Talk the Talk - Discussing Meiyazhagan & I Want to Talk | Shoojit Sircar | C Prem Kumar #139
Hello, Hello, Hello!
In this new (but considerably delayed) episode, we talk about two films that approach the subject of talking differe...
All We Imagine as Light & The Gently Surreal Cinema of Payal Kapadia #138
Hello, Hello, Hello!
In this very special, if slightly delayed episode, Dhruv & Amartya are joined by returning guest Cris (now "not the...
Is Gladiator 2 any good? | What is up with FFC's Megalopolis? #137
Hello Hello Hello!
In this new episode, we discuss two films -- "Gladiator 2" and "Megalopolis" -- directed by two stalwarts of H...
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - The Horrors of Everything (including Book-to-Screen Adaptation) #136
It's no longer Halloween Month because we're one day late in uploading this, but regardless, here's our penultimate ep on Kubrick (one more for Noirve...
Hammer Horror Films 101 | Dracula (1958) | Rasputin - The Mad Monk (1966) #135
In our third Halloween-themed episode this month, Varun (playing podcast host) and Dhruv discuss a sub-genre of British horror films best characterize...
Horror Movie Catch-Up for 2024! ft. The Substance, Longlegs, Oddity, Strange Darling & many more! #134
In our second Halloween-themed episode this month, Dhruv and Amartya are joined by returning guest Arijit (last heard in our “Elevated” Horror film di...
Kinds of Kindness & Waves of (Greek) Weirdness | The Absurd Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos #133
In the first (of four!) episodes planned for Halloween
month, we're entering not the King-sized American genre worlds populated by slasher kille...
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - The Dawn of Everything | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) #132
It's no longer Kubrick Month because we're late recording and uploading this and P4, but regardless, we're here to complete our Kubrickian Odysseys!
Stanley Kubrick's Ultra-Violent & Erotic Odysseys | Lolita | A Clockwork Orange | Eyes Wide Shut #131
It's no longer Kubrick Month because we're late recording
and uploading this and P4, but regardless, we're here to complete our Kubrickian Odyss...
BEST OF 2024 (SO FAR) #130
In this episode, Dhruv and Amartya invite Devi (@film.trance) and Adithiyan (@curioseradithiyan) to discuss their favorite films of the year (up to an...
Stanley Kubrick's Historical Odysseys | Barry Lyndon | Spartacus #129
Tis' Kubrick Month!
Dhruv, Amartya, and Hemant will spend the entirety of July revisiting and discussing 10 (of 13) Kubrick-direct...
Stanley Kubrick's (Anti)War Odysseys | Fear and Desire | Paths of Glory | Dr. Strangelove | Full Metal Jacket #128
Tis' Kubrick Month!
Dhruv, Amartya, and Hemant will spend the entirety of July revisiting and discussing 10 (of 13) Kubrick-direct...
Queer Coding, Reading and Camp Sensibility in Bollywood | Karan Johar | Farah Khan #127
Hello, Hello, Hello!
In our third (of three!) episodes on Queerness in Film this month, Dhruv invites Queer Academic & SRK and KJo...
Queer Desire and its Arrhythmic Rhythm in Claire Denis' Beau Travail #126
In the second of three (or maybe even four!) episodes on Queer Cinema this month, Dhruv and Cris rhapsodize about Claire Denis' formally groundbreakin...