Deletion of Gumrah (1993 film)

Comment: Article has been rewritten, expanded, and is now coherent. Search for sources is made difficult because there are several films with the same name made by different filmmakers. Search using "film name"+"director name" is showing results. Made enough of an impression when it screened in Nigeria in the mid-90s that author Brian Larkin made special note of the audience's reaction to the film in his 2008 book http://books.google.com/books?id=kr8s3YlZSGcC&pg=PA147&dq=%22Gumrah%22,%22Mahesh+Bhatt%22&ei=MZ2oSuuuDJXeNcuAyacK#v=onepage&q=%22Gumrah%22%2C%22Mahesh%20Bhatt%22&f=false '' Signal and noise: media, infrastructure, and urban culture in Nigeria‎''. Now while I have not yet found a ''New York Times'' or ''Variety'' review of this 1993 Hindi language Bollywood film, I believe it would be prudent to consider  and allow the article to remain and be further improved, as there is most definitely a language barrier that must be considered
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Systemic bias (WP:CSB)

Comment: This is a notable film, and easily more so than many of the American straight-to-video movies considered "notable". It must be kept in mind that notability is not simply the outcome of games played between Wikipedia editors with  as rules, but something that is presumed to exist and for which  is a guideline. There are two arguments in the delete vote that would be a dangerous precedent: (1) "would have been referenced in various scholarly works": this is not the case, as most movies (and popular culture in general) in India simply do not get anywhere the level of obsession or academic attention that is granted to them in the West. Does this mean that Indian movies are inherently less notable? (2) the reliance on online resources: this is bad, since as SpacemanSpiff pointed out, online archives are flaky. Both of these, and other things to watch out for, are covered at ountering systemic bias. In this case, given that it is a big-budget film produced by Yash Johar and featuring major stars and director, and the http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=gumrah+%28johar+OR+bhatt+OR+sridevi%29 sources online mention phrases like "mammoth production" and "company's biggest hits over the years, from Dostana in the 80s to Gumrah in the 90s to the more recent Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna" (which isn't actually true, but whatever), and the coverage before launch mentioned above, it is fairly clear—and safe to assume—that the film ''was'' notable, did arrive with a lot of hype, and received reviews (more than two!) in national newspapers and the like. To use Spiff's pat analogy: would you assume, in the absence of other information, that any film starring Russell Crowe or nominated for one of the major Oscars might be non-notable (by the current guidelines. I'm not proposing a new criterion for notability
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:NF||WP:NF||WP:C)