Mirzapur (film) is drawing 118x more Wikipedia traffic than normal

What this article is

Mirzapur: The Movie is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language action gangster drama film directed by Gurmeet Singh and written by Puneet Krishna. Produced by Ritesh Sidhwani and Farhan Akhtar under Excel Entertainment, the film stars Pankaj Tripathi, Ali Fazal, Divyenndu, Jitendra Kumar and Ravi Kishan. It acts as an interquel set during the first season of the Amazon Prime Video television series Mirzapur (2018).

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Where editors were working

Wikipedia editors made 49 edits to this article on 2026-09-05, concentrated in these sections. This is evidence about the surge, not an explanation of it.

• Box office
• Critical response
• Cast
• Plot

What changed that day

The article grew by 4,144 characters that day. The largest single addition was 925 characters to Critical response. See everything that changed on 2026-09-05 in Wikipedia's own diff view — that is where the reason for a surge is usually visible, written and sourced by the editors who were following the story.

How this was measured

Views are Wikimedia's own pageview counts for en.wikipedia, filtered to agent=user so automated traffic is excluded. The baseline is the median of the previous 60 days, which is used instead of the mean so that an earlier surge cannot flatten a later one. The multiple is the day's views divided by that median.