Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture Podcast

Mar 15 2025 148 ep. 94 mins 111
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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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Bollywood's Artless Trash vs. Artful Trash | Nadaaniyan | Badass Ravikumar | Loveyapa #148

Mar 15 2025 151 mins  
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 Entertainment's "Nadaaniyan" into something (hopefully) productive and cathartic!Cris, Dhruv, and Amartya try to make sense of Bollywood's sheer incompetence today and find (at least Cris does) a potential savior in Himesh Reshammiya, "B

Best International Films of 2024! | The Substance, Anora, Nickel Boys, Queer, I Saw the TV Glow, & many more! | #147

Mar 10 2025 210 mins  
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 they discussed their Best Indian Films of 2024!Each of them selects not only their favorite film but also their favorite director, cinematographer, composer/sound designer, scriptwriter, editor, supporting and lead performers of t

Anora & The Humanist Cinema of Sean Baker | The Burden of Representation Cont... #146

Mar 01 2025 130 mins  
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 Academy Awards, Baker-fan Dhruv moderates also-Baker-fan Hemant and new-to-Baker's-films Cris' discussion about his latest film and the reception to it. Listen to the full episode to hear Hemant and Dhruv first discuss what they love abo

Luca Guadagnino's Queer & Call Me By Your Name | The Burden of (Queer) Representation #145

Feb 24 2025 134 mins  
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, Luca Guadagnino-devotee Cris invites spoilsport Dhruv to talk about the director's latest release "Queer" and how wonderfully it complements the director's wonderful "Call Me By Your Nam

Best Indian Films of 2024! | Vaazhai, Kottukkaali, Kishkindha Kaandam, Merry Christmas & many more! #144

Feb 04 2025 213 mins  
In this episode, Dhruv and Amartya invite Devi (@film.trance) and Adithiyan (@curioseradithiyan) to discuss their favorite Indian films of the year in the same format in which they discussed their Best of 2024 (So Far)! Each of them selects not only their favorite Indian film but also their favorite director, cinematographer, composer/sound designer, script writer, editor, suppor

Black Warrant (2025) - A Great Indian Netflix Show in This Economy?! #143

Jan 28 2025 62 mins  
Hello, Hello, Hello, In this bite-sized episode (relative to the episodes we have already released and will release in the coming month), Amartya and Varun discuss Vikramaditya Motwane's latest Netflix series, "Black Warrant," and why you should not only watch it but "savor it." Spoilers Galore! Follow our Instagram page: https://instagram.com/queenisdead.filmpodcast Do hit 'F

Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu: Forever in the Shadow of F. W. Murnau and Werner Herzog's Nosferatwos #142

Jan 16 2025 116 mins  
Hello, Hello, Hello, This is the second part of the discussion we had on Robert Eggers! Here, Dhruv – joined by the brain-melting and blood-sucking vampire, Varun, and his “spirited animal” friend, Hemant – tries to talk about Eggers’ latest horror film, “Nosferatu,” in relation to F. W. Murnau’s 1922 German Expressionist classic, and Werner Herzog’s existentia

Robert Eggers & His Acutely Authentic Brand of Nightmarish Cinema #141

Jan 10 2025 124 mins  
Hello, Hello, Hello! In what is another one of our director retrospective episodes, Dhruv, Amartya, and Aryan (from America) talk about the 3 feature films directed by much-revered horror director Robert Eggers, whose latest film, “Nosferatu," just recently released this week in India! (We have a whole “Nosferatu" themed ep planned to be recorded and released in the coming we

The Most Disappointing Films of 2024 | Disclaimer, Emilia Pérez, Agra & 3 more! #140

Jan 01 2025 168 mins  
Hello, Hello, Hello Dhruv and Amartya’s first foray into this type of episode – that we have consciously avoided up until now – comes courtesy of our new QID member and admin of our Twitter page (https://x.com/qidpodcast) – Cris (https://x.com/limjaeseven). Rather than simply bash films released this year that we unanimously hated, however, we’ve tried to talk construct

Talk the Talk - Discussing Meiyazhagan & I Want to Talk | Shoojit Sircar | C Prem Kumar #139

Dec 20 2024 112 mins  
Hello, Hello, Hello! In this new (but considerably delayed) episode, we talk about two films that approach the subject of talking differently -- "I Want to Talk" and "Meiyazhagan." 'I Want to Talk,' directed by Shoojit Sircar and starring Abhishek Bachchan, continues the director's trend to push his films to the brink of becoming anti-dramas. C Prem Kumar's 'Meiyazhagan,' on the o