Top 1000 voters rated this 4.6?

cause most of the top1000 voters are not "indian" but if this was ever remade in hollywood by known directors, that film will make the Top250 list easily..

I agree, i generally hate hindi movies unless its from Neeraj Pandey or Aamir Khan or something like Kahaani but this deserves a 10.

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I guess the reason is this - movie is remade 5th time in India in as many languages, and like usual person supports version made in his/her own language thinks other version aren't as superior than the one made in their language, this might cause them to rate this less than 9 (I wont say 10 as 9 is what I read as an average rating with 10K+ voters already)

I rated it perfect 10, it's splendid movie and will be compared for all other thrillers to come from Bollywood at least in our lifetime. Some movies you cannot forget, this one is one such.

I won't call them racist but i think their rating system is kind of biased, it's not only this movie, if you see the rating of lagaan from top 1000, it only got 5.2, udaan 5.4, and there are only 5 Indian movies which got more than 6 by top 1000and those are three movies from apu's trilogy, charulata and lunchbox. All three movies from apu's trilogy got the average rating of 7.2 from top 1000, charulata got 6.7 and lunchbox got 6.2 . But ironically, Avengers got 7.3, knight and day got 5.9 and mission impossible series got around 6.0, thus according to top 1000 voters of imdb avengers is better than apu's trilogy, knight and day is better than charulata and every movie in mission impossible series got more rating than lagaan and udaan. Don't you think they view even great Indian movies as inferior to other stupid movies that Hollywood makes.

i just saw drishyam on the recommendation of two dear friends whom i respect.
to say i was dissapointed is an understatement.
i think the movie is rated poorly by the top 1000voters on imdb because of its cheesy sentimentality.
i urge you to re-watch the movie, disconnect your sentiments, and just pay attention to the back ground score and shot choices used by the filmakers.
they are cheesy and over played.
the reason i think most people from outside india are perturbed by bollywood productions isn't racisim or any thing of the like, it is because the movie seem like social messages and are manipulative and over explanatory, ehich makes a memeber of the audience feel like he is being treated like an idiot.
why indians arent yet perturbed by this is another discussion for another day.
tabu dressed in black, the little girl getting slapped, all the witnesses not remembering what they did on a national holiday, etc. are all gimicks that would upset a serious appreciator of cinema.
the sound affects brought in every time there is a joke, an injustice, or a moment of nobility, are cringe worthy.
the strictly maintained the bad guy is a bad guy, the good guy is always a good guy, is not real, its a fake type of sentiment that indian movie watchers seem to need.(i am indian)
and the manipulation is insulting.
in 3 idiots we hear a song called all is well a happy dancy song, right after which we see the body of a young man dangling from his ceiling fan. this is audience manipulation, a tac tic you resort to when you actually dont have a movie.
i know many people will disagree the same way everyone goes nuts when you say anything about sachin, salman, or any person or thing that the masses have idolized.
there are blue moon days for indian cinema as well, when they produce something which has subsatnce and not just an emotional thrilling joy ride.
ankhon dekhi comes to mind, surprisingly so does piku.
any who i really recommend leaving the fan boy in you behind and re watching Drishyam to see it for what it really was.
notice a scene when Ajay Devgn goes to dump the car (more a boat considering the distance it got out to on that water), there is a labor man that appears on one of the hilly mounds around.
the sole purpose of this man is to thrill the audience.
its a little cheap honestly.
its sad that the audience is getting thrilled and not rolling their eyes or getting a little annoyed at the insult of it.
to me the shock is how this movie holds a 8.9 still. but well bahubali happened so i guess anything can.
in its defence, i liked the idea of an uneducated man getting his knowledge from cinema.
i also liked the body being buried in the police station (though i have a feeling i've seen that earlier), i liked his plan to get bills for the day and to go about repeating the day with the family.
but thats about it.
no one from the police team wanted to see the dvd of the swamis satsang to see if they can spot them in the audience?
where did the dogs body that he replaced sam's with come from?
it was the second of October, gandhi jayanti, a national holiday, and not one of the people he met had taken that day off?
not one witness thought it important to mention that tghey met the guy they were being questioned about twice?
i feel bad for Gaitonde, "the monster", poor fellow kept telling the truth and knew something as a police officer, and no one would listen to him? why cause he's not pretty?
and the premise of the movie, the video of a bathing girl would really turn the world upside down?
i mean isn't it more shameful for the ig of police to have such a son. a peeping tom.
couldn't they have just gone to the police and reported him?
it would have been sensational for the media to get such dirt on the son of a senior police woman and a prominent businessman.
its just all such blah blah blah.
my problem is that people aren't thinking of this movie as entertainment solely, they are seeing it as a benchmark of art.
which it is not.
and holly wood produces a lot of *beep* too, the difference is the appreciators of those movies are universally seen as non cinephiles and for lack of a better word, stupid. the non art world.
we don't have this distinction here.
ho hum.
anywho later.
see it again and with subtitles, so you get the perspective of someone who doesnt speak hindi.
the subtitling job doesn't do justice to whatever little merit this movie's dialogue work may take.

Haven't seen this movie,i have Queen(2014)which was super movie(main role by Kangana Ranaut)And I don't understand why TOP 1000 voters hate indians movies.
Why?

Most of the Top 1000 users are exactly those kind of users whose main agenda is to increase their number of ratings, and not genuinely rate a movie after actually watching it.

Many of those users use stereotypes to rate the movies(and why not? Stereotypes are known to give quick efficient conclusions at the expense of uniqueness and individuality)

So, its not hard to guess that many of those users by just seeing that its a bollywood film and its high rating, given that they have already watched a bollywood movie which was overrated according to them, gave this movie a bad rating, without actually trying to watch it with a receptive and open mind!

Top 100 voters are not necessarily qualified to rate movies, they are just the people that rates more titles.

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I'm one of the top 1000 voters. I gave this 8/10.