After Hrithik Roshan, Vishal Bhardwaj lauds Vikrant Massey starrer 12th Fail: 'This is Vidhu Vinod Chopra's best film'

Vikrant Massey and Medha Shankr starrer 12th Fail continues to garner accolades amid its completion of 100 days in cinemas. Apart from turning out to be one of the most profitable films of last year, it garnered praises from stars like Kamal Haasan, Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, Anurag Kashyap, Rani Mukerji, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Alia Bhatt, Masaba Gupta, Vicky Kaushal, Vijay Deverakonda and others. The latest one to join the bandwagon is acclaimed Vishal Bhardwaj. During a press conference at the Jaipur Literature Fest, he said, “A silver lining in this is the success of _12th Fail_ . There is no star, there is no weirdness, the background score is also beautiful. It is pure filmmaking by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and I think this is his best film. To see the kind of success and love the film got, if there is a silver lining that the audience is there to watch every kind of film but it must be worth it for them to come to theatres. So we all are exploring whether a film like Animal will work or a film like Jawan or Pathaan or a mindless south Indian action film. It is all imbalanced.”

Talking about Independent cinema, he shared, “Independent cinema has progressed a lot. In fact, it progressed and is now regressing. What’s responsible for that, we all are exploring. There was a time when Haider, Maqbool, Omkara, which still had commercial stars, but films like Dev D and Oye Lucky Lucky Oye, we used to easily get money to make those kinds of films. Now it’s very difficult to raise money for these kinds of films because everyone is scared, everyone is exploring ‘ki kya chalega theatres mein’ (what will work in theatres).”