The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb

The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb | FiveThirtyEight:
What’s the worst movie in history? 
“Battlefield Earth,” featuring John Travolta as a dreadlocked alien (IMDb rating: 2.4)?
“Troll 2,” a non-sequel featuring no trolls (IMDb score: 2.6)?
“Ishtar,” the only movie for rent in Hell’s video store (IMDb score: 4.1)?
Perhaps it’s “Gigli” (IMDb score: 2.3), the movie that ruined (the first) Bennifer for all of us?
According to voters on the Internet Movie Database, it’s none of the above.
With a dreadful weighted rating of 1.4 out of 10 based on more than 44,000 votes, a 2014 Bollywood movie called “Gunday” is by far the worst movie in the IMDb universe.1
A pretty silly, over-the-top Bollywood action flick about gun couriers that features a love triangle and lots of comical misunderstandings typical to the genre, “Gunday” has somehow found its way to the bottom of the biggest movie database in the world.
That bottom is very far down.
There are currently more than 235,000 films on IMDb...
But the film made a misstep that has doomed it to the bottom of the IMDb pile.
“Gunday” offended a huge, sensitive, organized and social-media-savvy group of people who were encouraged to mobilize to protest the movie by giving it the lowest rating possible on IMDb...
The protest against “Gunday” is the most recent cause célèbre of a Bangladeshi nationalist movement called Gonojagoron Moncho, or National Awakening Stage.
Gonojagoron Moncho was founded in response to the trial of Abdul Quader Molla, a Bangladeshi Islamist leader who last year was found guilty of killing hundreds of civilians as part of a paramilitary wing during Bangladesh’s liberation war from Pakistan in 1971..."
Interesting.