'The Kashmir Files': IMDb switches rating method upon noticing ‘unusual voting activity’; Vivek Agnihotri reacts
The popular website hosting film and television audience reviews, IMDb, has switched its method for calculating ratings for the critically acclaimed film 'The Kashmir Files'.
The Hindi film's rating page read, "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 Kashmir Files' presently has a rating of 8.3 with 135,000 votes. While 94% of people gave it a 10 rating, only 4% gave it a 1 rating.
Giving out details about the IMDb rating criteria, the platform stated “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.”
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Following IMDb's change in the rating system for 'The Kashmir Files', a fan of the film brought this to the notice of director Vivek Agnihotri on Twitter.
Filmmaker Vivek responded to the matter and said, “This is unusual and unethical.”
Vivek Agnihotri's 'The Kashmir Files' is based on the brutal real-life exodus of Kashmiri Pandits during the Kashmir Insurgency 32 years ago. The film was released on March 11 and is the centre of attention. It received mixed reviews and has been embroiled in numerous controversies.
The film features Anupam Kher, Darshan Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi in major roles along with Atul Srivastava, Puneet Issar, Mrinal Kulkarni and Prakash Belawadi.
The film grossed Rs. 27 crores at its first weekend. The movie has shown over a 300 percent increase on the third day of its release.
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