In India Several Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states  including Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Karnataka  have exempted the film from entertainment tax. In Madhya Pradesh, police personnel also got special leave if they wanted to watch the movie with their family.

The film has created controversy, with some saying that it is a further attempt by supporters of the Hindu right-wing government to create an anti-Muslim narrative in the country. 

Others believe it is an important depiction of harm done to Kashmiri Pandits.

Meanwhil IMDB – an online database for films and TV shows – has changed the method of rating for the Vivek Agnihotri-directed The Kashmir Files after noticing “unusual voting activity”.

The movie, released in theatres on March 11, stars Anupam Kher, Pallavi Joshi, Darshan Kumaar and others, and talks about the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in 1990s, after a surge in militancy in the region. 

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Hindu caste system advocated in manu Smiriti that discriminatory by birth is called as social evil been vehemently protested by various Indian leaders inclusive of B.R.Ambethkar , EVERA ( called fondly as Periyar) ,

While the movie has an 8.3/10 rating at the moment, it had a 9.9 rating soon after its release.

While 94% of people gave it a 10 rating, 4% of people rated it 1, according to India Today.

“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,” IMDB said in a note. 

“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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Tamil Suriya-starrer Jai Bhim, directed by TJ Gnanavel, tells the story of judicial violence faced by a tribal community, and it released on 2 November 2021 . Since its release, it has been appreciated by both critics and the audience, evidenced by its IMDb ratings. The audience seemed to love the film so much that it sits at an IMDb rating of 9.6 with 1,17,000 users. The previous two films on IMDb with the highest ratings were The Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather with ratings of 9.3 (with 2.5 million users) and 9.2 (with 1.7 million users).

The film director Agnihotri who is follower of Hindutva principles party  RSS –  thrice banned orgainsation in India for terrorism activites   took to Twitter to call IMDB’s rating change “unusual and unethical”.

Mean while Congress Party MP and leader Rahul gandhi has posted in Meta ( formerly Facebook) in Hindi whose translation reads as .,

The truth of Kashmiri Pandits is that, Then BJP did not withdraw support from VP Singh government on the issue of Kashmiri Pandits,,, . 

Support was taken back when Lalu Yadav arrested Lal Krishna Advani. That means the plight of Kashmiri Pandits for BJP, displacement was not in priority.

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