Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s 12th Fail about a real-life Ias aspirant who literally made it from zero, was the sleeper success of 2023. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Vidhu Vinod Chopra created history with a film that no one seemed to believe in.

Doff of the cap to that.

And now onto a film about the filming of 12th Fail . I would like to request Mr Chopra for a film on how he convinced his team to make a film on the filming of 12th Fail. Or perhaps , he did no such thing. Mr Chopra is known to do his own thing. As one of the distinguished alumni from the Vvc University quipped, ‘With Vinod it is more a scream effort than a team effort’.

This creative creature is known to lose his temper while shooting. Mr Chopra’s screaming bouts with his actors, from Nana Patekar in...