- Films
- 23
- Avg rating
- 5.57
- Peak run
- 2001’04
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Kal by the numbers
Average
5.57
19 rated films
Vote weighted
5.57
bigger films count more
Median
6.0
half are better
Consistency
±1.41
rating spread
Career
22y
2001 to 2022
Total votes
1.4M
across every film
Best
7.5
The Namesake
Worst
2.3
Son of the Mask
Newest first
Filmography
| 2022 |  Smile | Dr. Morgan Desai | 6.5 | 250K |
| 2021 | Untitled Horror Movie | Mark | 4.8 | 1,630 |
| 2018 | The Ashram | Nitin | · | 988 |
| 2017 |  The Layover | Anuj | 4.8 | 18,387 |
| 2017 | Speech & Debate | James Merrick | 5.9 | 1,512 |
| 2016 | Better Off Single | Brice | · | 909 |
| 2015 | Emily & Tim | Tim Hanratty (segment: Discord) | · | 373 |
| 2015 | The Girl in the Photographs | Peter Hemmings | 4.5 | 4,396 |
| 2014 | Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain | Motwani | 7.1 | 2,285 |
| 2014 | The Sisterhood of Night | Gordy Gambhir | 6.0 | 2,338 |
| 2011 |  A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas | Kumar | 6.2 | 75,689 |
| 2008 |  Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay | Kumar | 6.5 | 147K |
| 2007 |  Epic Movie | Edward | 2.5 | 114K |
| 2006 |  Superman Returns | Stanford | 6.1 | 305K |
| 2006 |  The Namesake | Nikhil a.k.a. Gogol | 7.5 | 23,167 |
| 2006 |  Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj | Taj | 4.8 | 24,861 |
| 2005 |  Son of the Mask | Jorge | 2.3 | 62,686 |
| 2004 | Ball & Chain | Bobby | · | 646 |
| 2004 |  Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle | Kumar Patel | 7.0 | 217K |
| 2003 | Where's the Party Yaar? | Mo (Mohan Bakshi) | 5.1 | 1,079 |
Better together?
Kal Penn's regulars
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Kal Penn
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