Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
3 Deewarein
Scored from 26 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Chandrika, a documentary filmmaker, is granted access to an Indian prison to film three inmates on death row as their appeals run out. Coaxing their accounts out on camera, she pieces together how each man - played by Naseeruddin Shah, Jackie Shroff and director Nagesh Kukunoor - came to be condemned, while her own unhappy marriage presses in from outside the walls. The prisoners' shifting stories and the jailer's uneasy cooperation steer her project somewhere she never intended. Kukunoor's Hindi-language drama takes its title, 'Three Walls,' from the cell that holds them.
Released in 2003, 3 Deewarein is a crime and drama film. The runtime is 168 minutes. Its listed language is Hindi. It was made in India.
7,846 other films from the 2000s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 26 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 27 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where 3 Deewarein lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 2000s (7,847 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 26.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
