12th Fail

12th Fail (2023)

12वीं फेल

Baseado na história verídica do agente da IPS Manoj Kumar Sharma, «12th Fail» destaca a coragem de abraçar a ideia de recomeçar o percurso académico, apesar dos contratempos e desafios, e de recuperar o controlo do próprio destino num local onde milhões de estudantes se candidatam ao exame mais difícil do mundo: o UPSC.

Data de estreia
2023-08-11
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (291)
Duração
2 h 26 min
Géneros
Drama
Realizador
Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Elenco

Curiosidades

12th Fail is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language biographical drama film directed, produced and written by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, and jointly written and edited by Chopra and Jaskunwar Kohli. It is based on the 2019 eponymous non-fiction book by Anurag Pathak about Manoj Kumar Sharma, who overcame extreme poverty to become an Indian Police Service officer, and Shraddha Joshi, who became an Indian Revenue Service officer and married Sharma. The film stars Vikrant Massey as Sharma and Medha Shankr as Joshi, alongside Anant Joshi, Anshumaan Pushkar and Priyanshu Chatterjee.

Production

In November 2022, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra announced the film, based on the novel Twelfth Fail, by Anurag Pathak. The film is inspired by the real life story of IPS Officer Manoj Kumar Sharma and IRS Officer Shraddha Joshi.

In November 2022, Chopra announced that actor Vikrant Massey will play the lead, marking their first collaboration. UPSC coach Vikas Divyakirti was cast to play himself on screen. Many real life UPSC aspirants were cast in various roles. According to Massey, it added "authenticity" to the film. Sharma and Joshi both made a cameo appearance in the film.

The film is shot mainly at various locations in Agra, Chambal, Delhi, Mussoorie and Mumbai. A major portion of the film was shot in the two education hubs for government job aspirants, Rajendra Nagar and Mukherjee Nagar. The filming was wrapped up in December 2022.

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