Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s latest hindi language biographical drama film 12th Fail has emerged as the only Indian movie to make it to IMDb’s Global Top 250 list of movies, bagging the 50th position, the filmmaker’s production house announced via an Instagram post on Wednesday.
The film features right below the 1988 thriller Cinema Paradiso, a movie the filmmaker “worships”, Vidhu Vinod Chopra Films’s Instagram page wrote, sharing a screenshot of the IMDb list.
“VVC (Vidhu Vinod Chopra) has spent his life talking to everyone about how much he worships Cinema Paradiso and 12th Fail has now secured the #50 spot in the top 250 films of all time, a rank below the film he worships,” the production house captioned alongside a screenshot of the ranking of the movie at the 50th position in the list.
“I’m still that little boy from Kashmir. To see my film right next to Cinema Paradiso… What do I even say? I can now die in peace,” Chopra said in a statement.
12th Fail movie is about the real life story of IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma (Vikrant) who overcame poverty and cracked UPSC, was released in theatres on October27, 2023.
After its OTT release on December 29, the movie got the topmost position on IMDb’s list of highest-rated Indian movies of all time, leaving behind even Hollywood hits Oppenheimer and Barbie.
Currently the movie also received praise at the Macau Asia-Europe Young Cinema Film Festival, where it was selected as the closing film and received a standing ovation.
“‘Uss Chauhan se bolne ki usne ek IPS ke baap se panga lo hai’ was the line that got the loudest cheers as #12thFail stole hearts at Macau Asia-Europe Young Cinema Film Festival,” Chopra wrote on Instagram, sharing moments from the film festival.
