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Pareeksha – The Final Test (2019)

Pareeksha – The Final Test poster
Original title
परीक्षा - एक आखिरी इम्तिहान
Directed by
Prakash Jha
Genre
drama
Country
India
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
U
Rating
5.8 of 10 from 15 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A rickshaw driver in Ranchi struggles to give his son a quality education at a private English medium school. The film follows his efforts and challenges within India's education system.

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What happens

Pareeksha – The Final Test is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Prakash Jha. The film stars Adil Hussain, Priyanka Bose, Sanjay Suri, Shourya Deep and Shubham Jha in the lead roles. The film takes on the education system in India and revolves around the story of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Ranchi, Jharkhand, who aspires and dreams of providing a maximum possible quality education to his son by making arrangements for him to study at a private English medium school. The film is based on the real-life story of IPS officer Abhayanand, who teaches and coaches kids in a village in Bihar affected by the Naxal to help them pass in the IIT-JEE exams. Initially intended for theatrical release, the film was premiered through ZEE5 on 6 August 2020. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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