Prakash Jha's next film Pareeksha is an inspiration from real life story

Producer and director Prakash Jha has made films like Aarakshan, Satyagraha , Jai Gangaajal . He is known for making films which are based on socio- political background. While such interesting stories has been created by the filmmaker it looks like he found the story of his upcoming film from a real life incident.

The film is titled Pareeksha and the idea came to the filmmaker from an inspirational story he heard. The story is about children in a Naxal affected area in Bihar and after listening to it the topic concerned Prakash and stayed with him ever since he heard it. A former Bihar Director general of police, Abhay Anand had once narrated his tryst with the filmmaker where present were a bunch of underprivileged but talented kids. “Abhay told me that when he was posted in Jehanabad as senior SP, he used to often go to villages in Naxal affected areas and would spot a bunch of kids whose intelligence used to bowl him out. So, he started chatting with them and asking questions, and encouraged them to come for special coaching, which he arranged in the town. Some of them were so intelligent that they qualified for engineering colleges,” Jha shares.

This was one of the instances, which made Prakash Jha to tell the story of the aspirations of the underprivileged, especially as far as education is concerned. Abhayanand , who also began a special educational initiative to educate children in the region, clarifies that Pareeksha is not a biopic. He further added, “I casually spoke to him once about one of my visits to a Naxal affected belt when I met some children who solved a complex problem. They weren’t school going kids, but I realized how even kids who do not go to school have an innate intelligence."

The film stars Adil Hussain , Priyanka Bose , and Sanjay Suri in the film which tells a story of a poor family's desire to educate their son in an English medium school so that they can finally ensure a bright future for him. The release date of the film is not yet announced.