THE PR MAFIA EXPOSE: #TheVvaan IMDb/BookMyShow RATINGS MAKE NO SENSE! Let’s forget the PR machinery for a moment and look at the numbers. #TheVvaan is being promoted as a deeply rooted Indian-culture film, built around Chhath Maiya, our traditions, mythology and Indian cultural emotions. So naturally, you would expect its strongest organic connection to come from Indian audiences. But IMDb is telling us something VERY different. #TheVvaan has only around 1.1K IMDb votes — with: 🇮🇳 India: 543 voters 🇺🇸 USA: 511 voters Almost the SAME number of voters from India and the USA. Now look at the 10/10 distribution: 🇮🇳 India: 449/543 = 82.7% gave 10/10 🇺🇸 USA: 498/511 = 97.5% gave 10/10 97.5% of the US voters gave this supposedly rooted Indian, Chhath Maiya-centric film a PERFECT 10/10. Seriously? A film marketed around Indian roots, Chhath culture, mythology and desi emotions is apparently receiving an even more unanimous response from American IMDb voters than Indians themselves. And we're talking about a film whose visual presentation has already been mocked by many viewers for its cardboard-looking VFX and artificial-looking imagery. Now compare this with #HanumanAnsh. #HanumanAnsh has around 11K IMDb votes — roughly: 🇮🇳 9K+ votes from India 🇺🇸 974 votes from USA That's what a much broader and more organically distributed audience sample looks like. And then comes the reality check: 🇺🇸 #HanumanAnsh: ~$1.75M North America 🇺🇸 #TheVvaan: ~$35K North America Yet somehow, among the tiny US IMDb sample for #TheVvaan, 498 out of 511 people allegedly decided that this was a 10/10 masterpiece. That's the part that deserves scrutiny. This alone doesn't prove that the votes are fake or generated by bots. But the distribution is bizarre enough to raise serious questions about how representative these ratings actually are. And IMDb is only ONE platform. Now look at BookMyShow. Normally, when a film opens with an extremely high rating, the rating tends to come down gradually as a much larger and more diverse audience starts watching it. But #TheVvaan has been moving like this: 9.7 → 9.5 → 9.3 → 9.4 → 9.5 → 9.4 → 9.2 → 9.1 → 9.2 → 9.1 Down. Then UP. Then down. Then UP again. And this is happening despite the audience pool continuously expanding. So what exactly is happening here? A rooted Indian-culture film centred around Chhath Maiya and Indian traditions, supposedly connecting with audiences so overwhelmingly that almost 98% of its US IMDb voters give it 10/10 — despite doing only around $35K in North America? Meanwhile, a film like #HanumanAnsh has a much larger and more geographically representative IMDb sample and has actually generated ~$1.75M in North America. If the suspected/inauthentic 10/10 votes were removed from #TheVvaan's sample, the underlying rating could theoretically fall dramatically — potentially towards the ~4/10 range, depending entirely on which votes were excluded. So no, the question isn't whether people are allowed to love #TheVvaan. Of course they are. The question is: WHY DOES THE DIGITAL RATING DATA LOOK SO EXTREME? Is this genuine audience enthusiasm? Or is there a coordinated effort to manufacture the perception that a Chhath Maiya-rooted, culturally Indian film with heavily criticised/cardboard-looking VFX has achieved near-universal audience approval? Because if ratings are being used as a PR weapon, then they're no longer simply reflecting audience sentiment. They're manufacturing it. And this is only the beginning. IMDb. BookMyShow. Ratings. Box office. Put all the numbers together. THE PATTERN DESERVES A MUCH CLOSER LOOK.