Marred with comments and criticism from various corners of society, these films received extremely low ratings or high dislikes on platforms like Imdb or YouTube. And the worst part is that these ratings have been driven by emotions rather than story or performance. Moreover, many of those giving such low ratings haven’t even seen it or know exactly about it.
And all this is being done with the sole purpose of negatively rigging the overall ratings of these movies or series. While sometimes it’s due to certain differences in political or cultural ideology (as in Rasbhari), faith or belief system and concerns regarding too much obscenity; most recently it’s the nepotism debate (Gunjan Saxena & Sadak 2) and the related boycotting of star kids and their films.
This anger amongst audience against nepotism is spreading like wild fire and in such circumstances, any movie featuring a star kid is bound to face strong backlash. But emotionally driven mass rating is a phenomenon not just related to nepotism and goes much beyond, like it did with Rasbhari. In such scenarios, will the public rating system like Imdb loose its relevance given the lower emotional tolerance limit of Indian viewers?