An adaptation of the Hindu epic Ramayana, Om Raut’s much-awaited big-ticket mythological film ‘Adipurush’ starring Prabhas (as Adipurush / Lord Ram), Saif Ali Khan (as Lankesh / Ravana), Kriti Sanon (as Janaki / Goddess Sita), Sunny Singh as Lakshmana, and Devdatta Nage as God Hanuman / Bajrang, is finally all set to hit the big screens tomorrow.
Despite the film’s trailer getting rather mixed feedback from film enthusiasts, ‘Adipurush’ reportedly has a fantastic advance booking report, suggesting a brilliant start at the box office. Being one of the most expensive Indian films ever made, the makers of ‘Adipurush’ will be hoping for just that. But the initial audience response and word of mouth is bound to play a vital role in that.
However, one thing which is a bit troubling and confounding is that even before its full-fledged theatrical release, ‘Adipurush’ has already received a user rating on the globally popular movies database portal IMDb. As of now, ‘Adipurush’ has got an IMDb user rating of just 5.7/10 (at the time of writing this article). But there is a catch.
The current IMDb user rating of ‘Adipurush’ has been given by merely around 400 users. And interestingly, 71% of them have given the film a 10/10 rating while 23% of them have given 1/10 rating. These highly polarized IMDb user ratings from 94% of the aforementioned users implies that the net user rating for ‘Adipurush’ might not be genuine at all.
First of all, it needs to be taken into account that how can IMDb users rate a film even before its proper theatrical release. Without apparently watching a film, how can the same be rated by the audience? Which brings us to an important point that a virtually authoritative portal like IMDb should disallow its users rating any film before its proper release. We are not aware of the nitty-gritties of it, but IMDb should simply disable the option for rating a film by anyone before its release.
On a reviews aggregation website like, say, Rotten Tomatoes, a film or series (especially foreign titles) can be rated a few weeks before their release because quite often they are showcased in advance to critics / reviewers. But since IMDb is essentially a user-centric website, pre-release ratings for a film should be barred. Because it could create a biased viewpoint for a massively mounted film like ‘Adipurush’ when people haven’t even seen it. So, it’s kind of unfair. What are your expectations from ‘Adipurush’ and your thoughts about the film’s performance?
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