Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Sardar Udham
Scored from 460 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Released from a Punjab jail in 1931, Udham Singh sets out on a roundabout journey through the Soviet Union and Europe to London, carrying the memory of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar. Living under assumed names and taking odd jobs, he spends years working his way toward Michael O'Dwyer, the former Lieutenant Governor of Punjab who defended the killings, and in March 1940 he shoots him at Caxton Hall. Shoojit Sircar tells the story out of sequence, cutting between Udham's interrogation by Scotland Yard, his trial, his years with the revolutionary Bhagat Singh, and a long reconstruction of the massacre. Vicky Kaushal plays Udham in this Hindi-language film made for Amazon Prime Video.
Released in 2021, Sardar Udham is a drama, biography and history film. Shoojit Sircar directed it, with Vicky Kaushal in the cast. It plays in Hindi. Its country of origin is listed as India. It runs 2h 42m.
The calibrated figure is built from 460 reviewers whose rating history varies enough to place their own average. A broader pool of 581 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 11 of whom clear the calibration test. 7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
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 Sardar Udham 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 · 2020s (7,930 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 460.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
