Film · 2002 · Films · 2000s
The Legend of Bhagat Singh
Scored from 34 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).
Summary
A Hindi-language biographical drama directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, with Ajay Devgn as the Punjabi revolutionary Bhagat Singh. Marked as a boy by the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Singh rejects Congress-style non-violence and joins the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association with Sukhdev, Rajguru and Chandrashekhar Azad. After Lala Lajpat Rai dies following a police lathi charge, the group kills British officer John Saunders in reprisal, and Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt later throw non-lethal bombs in Delhi's Central Legislative Assembly and allow themselves to be arrested to publicise their manifesto. The later stretch follows his imprisonment, the hunger strike over the treatment of Indian prisoners, and the colonial trial that follows.
The Legend of Bhagat Singh is a 2002 biography, drama and history film. Its country of origin is listed as India. Its listed language is Hindi. The runtime is 155 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 12 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 7,846 other films from the 2000s 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 41 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 The Legend of Bhagat Singh 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 34.
Cohort: Films · 2000s
