WikiPop's Pick · September 5, 2026
Mirzapur (film)
2026 Indian film by Gurmeet Singh
On September 5, 2026, the most-viewed article on Wikipedia was Killing of the Clancy children, with 987,730 views. It was already WikiPop's pick on August 31, and we don't repeat an article within 30 days. So WikiPop's pick is #2, Mirzapur (film), with 213,671 views. Here's why it spiked.
Why the popularity?
This summary is AI-generated and may contain errors. It's researched by Claude Sonnet 5.5 using web search and Wikipedia, then reviewed and rewritten by a separate Claude Sonnet 5.5 editor.- Mirzapur, the Prime Video series fans have binged since 2018, finally got a big-screen movie, and it opened in cinemas Friday.
- It's not a Season 3 sequel but an "interquel" set during the first season, starring Pankaj Tripathi and Ali Fazal.
- A last-minute court petition tried to block the release over language and violence, but the court declined to pause it for now.
Mirzapur: The Movie is a 2026 Indian Hindi-language action crime thriller 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 is based on the Amazon Prime Video television series Mirzapur (2018).