12th Fail (2023)

Manoj Kumar Sharma fails his twelfth-standard exams in a Chambal village where copying in the hall is simply how it is done - and then decides to stop copying. What follows is years of hunger, menial work and repeated failure in Delhi on the way to the civil services examination. Vikrant Massey plays Manoj and Medha Shankr plays Shraddha; Vidhu Vinod Chopra directed, adapting Anurag Pathak's book about a real IPS officer.