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  12 th Fail (2023) Director: Vidhu Vinod Chopra Producers: Vidhu Vinod Chopra , Yogesh Ishwar Cast: Vikrant Massey (Manoj), Medha Shankar (Shraddha), Anant V Joshi (Pritam) BASED ON A TRUE STORY An inspiring and thrilling story, 12 th Fail is a great movie, sure to move you. Manoj Kumar Sharma is a young boy living in a village in the poverty-stricken Chambal region in Madhya Pradesh, ready to give his 12 th grade exams. Manoj’s parents and grandmother are strict Indians who do not believe in corruption, and Manoj’s father is embroiled in a case of threatening a government official. Manoj used chits, and so do his friends and the entire class, as it is an entrenched system of corruption enforced by the school and the local MLA as he wishes all students to pass. The class’s cheating is foiled by the DSP, which makes the entire class fail, including Manoj. Afterwards, Manoj’s brother is caught on false charges and is kept in prison by the police, while later, the DSP Dus

  Sam Bahadur (2023) Director: Meghna Gulzar Producer: Ronnie Screwvala Cast: Vicky Kaushal (Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw), Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub (Yahya Khan), Sanya Malhotra (Siloo Manekshaw), Neeraj Kabi (Jawaharlal Nehru), Fatima Saina Shaikh (Indira Gandhi) Sam Bahadur is a great movie about Sam Manekshaw, one of India’s greatest military minds. Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw is undergoing training at a camp in the Indian Military Academy, and is given a punishment of two weeks suspension for being late. Later, he fights and defeats Tikka Khan (he’ll be relevant in 40 years) in a boxing match.   Sam is selected as a captain and major to fight in Burma in WWII, against the Japanese Empire. As he’s walking his troops to a place, the troops get surprised by kamikaze raids, and 50 of them perish. Later, Sam leads his troops on Pagoda Hill, at the Battle of Sittang River, in a counter-attack against the invading  Imperial Japanese Army ; despite sufferi

  Imagesource: Wikimedia Commons Aatmapamphlet (2023) Director: Aashish Avinash Bende Producers: Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Aanand N. Rai, Kanupriya A. Iyer, Madhugandha Kulkarni, Shariq Patel Cast: Om Bendkhale/Manas Tondwalkar (Ashish), Pranjalii Shrikant / Khushi Hajare (Srishti), Chetan Wagh (Borya), Bhimrao Mude (Baba), Ketaki Saraf (Aai) Holy crap, this is one wild ride of a movie. Aatmapamphlet (2023) is a blast! Aashish Bende is a boy born in 1979, named so as he apparently had the blessing of God, as there was a mark on his forehead (it really was from the tools used for surgery). But wait, how did we get here? Flashback to the 1930s. Aashish’s pregnant great-grandma gets kicked out of the house by her alcoholic husband. Great-grandma goes to her relatives’, where she gives birth to Aashish’s grandpa.  Later, she gets educated, and becomes a schoolteacher, later principal of a school, after which, Grandpa gets married, has a son (dad), and later, in 1979, Aashis

  The Vaccine War (2023) Director: Vivek Agnihotri Producers: Pallavi Joshi, Abhishek Agarwal Cast: Nana Patekar, Pallavi Joshi, Raima Sen, Anupam Kher, Girija Oak, Nivedita Bhattacharya, Sapthami Gowda, Mohan Kapur An amazing, amazing movie about the greatest medical researchers of our time, The Vaccine War is nothing short of awesome. Dr. Balram Bhargava (Nana Patekar), the Director-General of the Indian Council of Medical Research in Delhi, reads a WHO article about a novel virus that originated in the city of Wuhan, China. He watches footage of people dropping dead, and a mysterious spike in pneumonia cases. A team is assembled to take a strain of it, analyze the virus, and image it via electron microscope. Afterwards, as Italian tourists who happen to be the novel virus’s carriers are found, a sample of the virus is taken from them, and photographed at the Bharat Biotech lab. When the photographing and the isolation of the virus is successful, the virus is named ‘Coronavirus’, fro