Anurag Kashyap praises Vidhu Vinod Chopra's '12th Fail', calls it the best mainstream film he saw in 2023

Anurag Kashyap has praised Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s ‘12th fail’. In a long note, he called it ‘the best 2023 mainstream film.’

Sharing the poster of the film on Facebook, Kashyap wrote, “Probably the best mainstream film I’ve seen in 2023 @vidhuvinodchoprafilms at the age of 71 has crafted a masterpiece out of a simple story of an adamant man wanting to be more than what life gives him. He goes and takes what he wants and how. What amazed me about the film is how he breaks all conventions of mainstream and has scenes done in simple long shots.”

The filmmaker also appreciated the cinematography and how the story unfolded. He wrote, “The crowd scenes of Mukherji nagar which feels like the camera just happened to watch the story unfold without disturbing the atmosphere. It just felt like we were fly on the wall witnessing the film unfold. The sparse background score, something that mainstream cinema always shows from. The faith the filmmaker has in himself and his actors and his storytelling that he doesn’t use the BGM to manipulate the audience or the emotions.”

Congratulating the whole team, Kashyap mentioned, “A new benchmark has been set by VVC for filmmakers like me who have been feeling a bit lost.” He also recalled meeting IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma in the past and said that he has read the book but he never could have seen it how Vidhu Vinod saw it.