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Friday, December 16th, 2022 7:02 AM

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Please approve this contribution correcting a film's release year

In my experience, corrections to release dates garner more false rejections on IMDb than any other category of contributions. This type of correction can be nearly impossible to get approved, especially when I am trying to correct an earlier date to a later date.

Today I received another false rejection. The contribution # is 221214-050128-714000.

IMDb needs to correct this title to show a 1964 release year (rather than 1959):

Maharani Padmini 

Unfortunately I do not know the exact date in 1964. But it has been well-documented that it was released in 1964.

In my contribution I provided links to half a dozen sources, including scholarly treatises, encyclopedias of Indian cinema history (links to the specific relevant pages within these books as viewed on Google Books), etc. Unfortunately I cannot copy and paste that field from my contribution into this post, because something is currently screwed up in the formatting when I view my contribution in Google Chrome, so that the ends of the lines are chopped off. But if you are able to access my contribution using the ID number, you will see all the links I provided. 

In short, only IMDb (and other sources copying their data from IMDb) have the wrong release year. This film was released in 1964, not 1959. Please correct the listing on IMDb. 

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Hey @keyword_expert -

Thanks for reporting, I have resubmitted on your behalf and approved.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ Thank you!