12th Fail

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12th Fail

2023,

2h 27m,

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Based on Anurag Pathak's bestselling novel of the same name, 12th Fail is a celebration of millions of students and their tireless spirit of never giving up. The film is the true story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma hailing from a small town in Chambal -- who fearlessly embraced the idea of restarting his academic journey and reclaiming his destiny at a place where millions of students attempt for the world's toughest competitive exam: UPSC.

Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

Oct 27, 2023

3/5

Vikrant Massey-starrer cleaves close to ground reality, with characters that makes you feel that they’ve wandered off the street, dishing out life-lessons laced with dollops of inspiration.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

Oct 24, 2023

3/5

A warm, if sentimental, paean to the idea that success in India, despite endemic corruption and the caste system, can still be achieved through meritocratic means.

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Jimmy Cage

Jimmy Cage Movie Reviews (YouTube)

Jan 24, 2024

7/10

12TH FAIL is a nicely told, touching underdog success story. Well played and technically at a high level. But it also focusses a bit too much on its inspirational note and I struggle to fully accept its message and worldview.

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Akhil Arora

The Long Take Podcast

Jan 4, 2024

[The movie loves romanticising struggle and is] willing to glorify everything and be like keep struggling — his motto is 'repeat, repeat.' What do you mean [by] repeat? For what objective? To what end?

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Tatsam Mukherjee

The Wire (INDIA)

Nov 10, 2023

Above all, 12th Fail is a paean to Vikrant Massey’s astronomical amounts of sincerity.

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Pramit Chatterjee

Digital Mafia Talkies

Oct 29, 2023

4/5

It’s unimaginably refreshing to see Vidhu Vinod Chopra and his team go back to the basics, employ long takes, use sound design to translate the emotions on-screen, and cut between scenes in, let’s say, a poetic fashion.

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Based on Anurag Pathak's bestselling novel of the same name, 12th Fail is a celebration of millions of students and their tireless spirit of never giving up. The film is the true story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma hailing from a small town in Chambal -- who fearlessly embraced the idea of restarting his academic journey and reclaiming his destiny at a place where millions of students attempt for the world's toughest competitive exam: UPSC.

Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Producer: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Screenwriter: Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Distributor: ZEE Studios International
Production Co: Vinod Chopra Films
Genre: Biography, Drama
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 27, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 2h 27m

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