Film · 2021 · Films · 2020s
Secrets of Sinauli
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
The film follows the Archaeological Survey of India's excavations at Sinauli, a village in Baghpat district, Uttar Pradesh, where burials dated to roughly 2000–1800 BCE produced wooden coffins, copper antenna swords, helmets, shields and three solid-wheeled vehicles. Excavators walk through the trenches and the recovered objects, arguing that the graves belong to a warrior society of the Ganga-Yamuna doab distinct from the contemporaneous Harappan civilisation. The question the documentary presses is whether those vehicles are horse-drawn chariots, as the excavation team maintains, or ox carts, a dispute bearing on claims about Indo-Aryan origins and the antiquity of Indian epic tradition. Presented by Neeraj Pandey and narrated by Manoj Bajpayee, it was produced for Discovery+ in India.
Secrets of Sinauli is a 2021 documentary and history film. It plays in Hindi. Its country of origin is listed as India.
7,929 other films from the 2020s form the cohort it is ranked inside. Only 34 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 49 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 Secrets of Sinauli 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 34.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
