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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Spider-Man: Brand New Day But Same Old Spidey (Affectionate, Mostly!) #191
Spider-Man is back! Again! Web-slinging his way to box-office history, as the editor of this episode is writing this description.
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A (Dis)Honorable 2026 for Bollywood So Far? | Assi | Main Vaapas Aaunga | O'Romeo, Tu Yaa Main, Ikkis & many more! #190
Hello Hello Hello,
It's that time of the year when QID does its mid-yearly Bollywood round-up (aka the time when Dhruv and Cris ar...
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey & The Compromise of Mixing Substance with Spectacle #189
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QID's manel (crew?) made up of Dhruv, Amartya, Varun, Cris, Arjun, and Hemant embark on an odyssey through Chri...
Dhoom to Alpha - From Action to Exhuastion? | The Rapid Demise of YRF's Spyverse #188
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Overcoming the righteous elitism that plagues the day-to-day operations of Queen is Dead, Amartya, Cris, and Va...
English Language Queer Cinema of Trash, Class & Classy Trash | Pink Flamingos | Benediction | Bound #187
In our final episode of this year's Pride series, Cris, Dhruv & Ashwin talk about English-language queer films as outsider "trash" art (John Waters' "...
European Queer Cinema of Lack and Excess | The Meetings of Anna | Querelle | Stranger by the Lake #186
In this second episode (of three) of this year's Pride special series, Cris, Dhruv, Ashwin, and returning guest Prakhar engage with European Queer Cin...
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 3) - Disclosure Day & (Naïve) Optimism #185
Amartya, Varun, Cris, and Arjun conclude the Spielberg Sci-Fi series with the release of "Disclosure Day". This final (spoiler-filled) episode looks a...
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 2) - Minority Report, War of the Worlds, & Ready Player One | Countdown to Disclosure Day #184
Amartya, Varun, and Cris (re)convene in a divergent manel to tackle Steven Spielberg's association with science fiction. This second in a series of th...
Asian Queer Cinema of Alienation | Happy Together | The River | Tropical Malady #183
In our second ever Pride special series, Cris is joined by fellow Queer Cinema enthusiasts Dhruv and Ashwin to discuss how different filmmakers from d...
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu — How Can A Cynical Cash Grab be this Cute? #182
Resident Star Wars Nerd Amartya introduces Resident Star Wars Noob Cris to the wonders(?) of the series as they discuss its latest addition: 'The Mand...
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 1) - Close Encounters with E.T & A.I | Countdown to Disclosure Day #181
Ashwin, Amartya, Dhruv, Varun, and Cris convene in a divergent manel to tackle Steven Spielberg's association with science fiction. This first in a se...
Patriot & the Value (and Pitfalls) of Mahesh Narayanan's Subdued Approach to Mainstream Cinema #180
Why pick team Mammootty or team Mohanlal when you can have both?
The first all-Mallu panel of QID—Cris, Ashwin, Arjun, and Devi—di...
The Devil Wears Prada 2 - A Legacy Sequel That's Actually Good?! #179
The girls who get it -- Cris, Ashwin, and Vik -- get it ("it" being the girls-and-gays-classic 'The Devil Wears Prada,' and its brand new sequel) and...
Kristoffer Borgli's "The Drama" & All the Real and Reel Life Drama that Surrounds It #178
Dhruv, Cris, Aryan, Srilekha & Varun (correctly pronounced, as per Srilekha, as "Borun") are discussing a(nother) A24 Film that's been the talk of the...
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller's Project Hail Mary - A Sci-Fi Classic that this World Needs & Deserves (for Better or Worse) #177
Dhruv's internet is down (and he despised the film everyone seems to love), so Varun takes over hosting duties of our latest episode. You know what yo...
English & International Language Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Miscellaneous Edition) #176
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This final(?) English and International Language Features Round-Up focuses on 7 features — 5 and 2 respective...
International Language Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 2 - Europe & South America) #175
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This second International Language Features Round-Up focuses on 5 features — 4 from Europe, and 1 from South...
International Language Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 1 - Asia & Middle East) #174
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This first International Language Features Round-Up focuses on 5 features -- 4 from Asia, and 1 from the Midd...
Vikramaditya Motwane's Udaan - Rebelling with a Cause | First & Final Cut Ep #1
Hello, Hello, Hello,
This is the first episode in our new series -- "First & Final Cut" -- in which we plan to discuss some of our...
Hollywood Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 3 - Ensemble Edition) #173
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This third and final (for the time being) English-Language Features Round-Up is mainly focused on covering fi...
Hollywood Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 2 - For the Guys) #172
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This episode is courtesy of PPC (Purush Pradhan Committee), a QID initiative.
This secon...
Hollywood Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 1 - For the Gays and Gals) #171
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We're back after a month-long hiatus with our podcast episodes -- which will be coming regularly to you from...
One Banger (or Not?) After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another #170
We know we're late to the party, but we had to talk about Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another" and all of the discourse surrounding it, o...
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
We recorded an episode about our favorite Paul Thomas Anderson films before the theatrical release of his new film, "One Battle After Another," but ar...
BEST of 2025 (SO FAR) - Part 2 | Badass Ravi Kumar & everything else! #168
We're [now] 4 months late to the BEST OF (SO FAR) party because, well, just.
The format we've been using for the past two years is...
Bittersweet Bond: Timothy Dalton days #167
Hello Hello Hello! Bond fan(atics) - Varun, Amartya and Sanjeet get together to discuss Timothy Dalton's interpretation of James Bond in The Living Da...
David Lynch's Lost Highway | The Strange Story (Part 5) #167
Dhruv and Cris meet Devarsi again outside the industrial hellscape of "Eraserhead" -- this time travelling alongside two new (hopefully recurring!) po...
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
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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
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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!
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In this new episode, Amartya &...
Materialists, Past Lives & The Celine Song Debate #155
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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...