Film · 2020 · Films · 2020s
Shikara
Scored from 278 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2020s (7,930 peers).
Summary
Set against the 1990 exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley, the film follows Shiv Kumar Dhar and his wife Shanti, a young Pandit couple whose lives are upended when rising militancy forces their community to flee their homeland. Spanning three decades, it traces their enduring love and longing for home as they live in refugee camps, holding onto hope of one day returning to Kashmir.
Released in 2020, Shikara is a drama, history and romance film.
Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,929 2020s films, not against the whole corpus. 278 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 348 reviewers with at least two reviews each 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 Shikara 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 278.
Cohort: Films · 2020s
