'Unethical,' says director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri as IMDb changes Anupam Kher's The Kashmir Files' rating from 9.9 to 8.3 after 'unusual activity'

By Rashita Sahni

on March 15, 2022 10:53:49 AM

Despite many odds including non-holiday release, limited promotions, limited screen count, and big competition from Radhe Shyam, Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s latest release The Kashmir Files has emerged as a winner at the box office. Not only that but the film has also received a fantastic rating on IMDB.

The film had been rated 9.9/10 on IMDb, a popular website hosting film and television audience reviews. However, the rating system for The Kashmir Files suddenly changed and the film now stands at a rating of 8.3/10. A message on the IMDb page of The Kashmir Files reads, "Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied." The rating stands at 8.3 with over 2 lakh votes. While 94% of people gave it a 10 rating, 4% of people rated it 1. A further note on the website read, "IMDb publishes weighted vote averages rather than raw data averages. The simplest way to explain it is that although we accept and consider all votes received by users, not all votes have the same impact (or ‘weight’) on the final rating. When unusual voting activity is detected, an alternate weighting calculation may be applied in order to preserve the reliability of our system. To ensure that our rating mechanism remains effective, we do not disclose the exact method used to generate the rating." Director Vivek Agnihotri soon reacted to the rating change and called it unethical.

THIS IS UNUSUAL AND UNETHICAL. https://t.co/Iwcc7yQCGk

— Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) March 14, 2022

Living up to its title, The Kashmir Files is a true story, based on video interviews of the first generation victims of The Kashmir Genocide of the Kashmiri Pandit Community. It’s a heart-wrenching narrative of the pain, suffering, struggle and trauma of Kashmiri pandits and questions eye-opening facts about democracy, religion, politics and humanity. Written and directed by Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, the exodus drama features a stellar cast of actors including Mithun Chakraborty, Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumaar, Pallavi Joshi and Chinmay Mandlekar.

Produced by Zee Studios and Tej Narayan Agarwal, Abhishek Agarwal, Pallavi Joshi and Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, The Kashmir Files, written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri released in theatres on March 11, 2022 and received a great response from the audience and critics likewise.

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