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Ranked #84 of 100
12th Fail
12वीं फेल · 2023
A boy from a Chambal village fails Class 12 honestly and spends years in Delhi's coaching alleys chasing the UPSC.
- Director
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra
- Year
- 2023
- Genre
- Biography · Drama
- Cast
- Vikrant Massey, Medha Shankr, Anant Joshi
Why it's at number 84
A word-of-mouth phenomenon and the best film about Indian exam culture, made with zero cynicism.
A boy from a Chambal village fails Class 12 honestly and spends years in Delhi's coaching alleys chasing the UPSC.
12th Fail sits in the 2020s alongside Sardar Udham and Laapataa Ladies — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra — also responsible for Parinda.
- Released in 2023, in the 2020s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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