Overview

• Vidhu Vinod Chopra received the Best Feature Film award for 12th Fail from President Droupadi Murmu at the 71st National Film Awards in New Delhi on September 23.
• Hindustan Times reported that Vikrant Massey’s Best Actor honor for 12th Fail was shared with Shah Rukh Khan, who won for Jawan.
• Chopra visited veteran leader L. K. Advani after the ceremony, a meeting highlighted by Anupama Chopra’s Instagram post recalling that Advani presented Chopra’s first National Award in 1977.
• Chopra credited the film’s real-life subject, IPS officer Manoj Kumar Sharma, saying officers like him are the reason many receive National Awards.
• Released on October 27, 2023, the biographical drama is adapted from Anurag Pathak’s 2019 book, stars Vikrant Massey with Medha Shankr, and features a screenplay by Chopra and Jaskunwar Kohli.