Film versus Digital - Sharpness, shadow & highlight detail

Moon rise on a busy cross road.
Detail and sharpness in highlight area is clearly visible at higher magnification, though it is low resolution scan from 35mm Fuji ISO 100 print film. It was scanned at only 1800x1200 resolution which equates only 2.1 megapixel image from a digital camera. The highlight in the digital capture burns/washes the detail while film holds it. Grains are unusually more visible in this frame because of poor developing and processing of film roll from my neighboring lab, even mishandling at lab has scratched and marked with pinhole on the film. It is not the drawback of film but the poor work from lab to blame. In India mot of the labs are too poor on quality and consistency. This is the reason most people here think that film is inferior than digital. Remember for the bad food we can't blame the ingredients, it is the unskilled chef in the kitchen who can't process all the ingredients in to a tasty dish.
The quality of detail and sharpness in highlight area here marked with two little circles in the magnified rectangle; would have bumped up if used with 28mm fix focal length lens. It was shot with 28-100 normal zoom at 28mm. No photo editing software used, straight from film scan file. Film is always superior, it rules. I shot it on 35 mm which is the smallest format used by amateurs, the possibilities are endless with medium format, 4x5, 8x10 sheet film.