Film · 2003 · Films · 2000s
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Scored from 125 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
Naina, a serious-minded young woman in New York burdened by family troubles, finds her life transformed when the charismatic and irrepressibly upbeat Aman moves in next door. As Naina falls for Aman, he quietly nudges her toward her devoted best friend Rohit, hiding a secret of his own that shapes the choices he makes for the people he loves.
Kal Ho Naa Ho is a 2003 comedy, drama and musical film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dramedy.
The calibrated figure is built from 125 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 154 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 2000s films — 7,847 of them.
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 Kal Ho Naa Ho 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 125.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
