Keep your shortlist together and see where it’s streaming
2020 · ZEE5 premiere · Hindi · 1h 42m · Drama · CBFC U
Keep your shortlist together and see where it’s streaming
Filmi Score
Good
6 reviews
62
1 exceptional2 very good1 good1 mixed1 weak
What the critics say
Critics largely praise Adil Hussain's performance and Prakash Jha's portrait of India's education and class divide, though several flag a melodramatic, repetitive second half, rough editing and dubbing, and shallow or uneven writing.
Audience Score · not yet · appears once three readers have written a review
Your rating
Rate it
Drag or tap the slider. Not rated yet.
–
Say why · optional, public under your name
StoryPerformancesMusicWatched
Posting as
Public, beside your review. Needed once you write words; a verdict or aspect numbers alone needs none.
Filmi reads what you write under the same rubric it uses for critics.
Public, beside your note. Needed once you write words; an age pick alone needs none.
Your age call counts now; the levels show once three parents have rated.
Saved. One more thing, if you like — your kids’ ages.
Set once, and your vote shows other parents which ages it came from. Kept on your account; only the ages travel with your vote.
One email on Fridays: the five films worth your time, read from every review. See the latest issue
Summary
Pareeksha (2020, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 62 from 6 critic reviews, is rated All by Filmi (CBFC: U), and streams on Vi Movies and TV in India.
The film revolves around the story of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Bihar who aspires and dreams of providing maximum possible quality education to his son by making arrangements for him to study at a private English medium school.
Where to watchAvailability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
The film revolves around the story of an ordinary rickshaw driver in Bihar who aspires and dreams of providing maximum possible quality education to his son by making arrangements for him to study at a private English medium school.
Pareeksha (2020, Hindi) has a Filmi Score of 62 from 6 critic reviews, is rated All by Filmi (CBFC: U), and streams on Vi Movies and TV in India.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.
Anmol Jamwal finds Pareeksha a humble, convincing film carried by Adil Hussain and Priyanka Bose's performances and Prakash Jha's writing on… Watch it there →
Hindustan Times calls Pareeksha a compelling if slow watch, crediting uniformly strong performances and its realistic class-divide portrait, while… Read it there →
The Hindu praises Pareeksha's intent and first-half performances but finds the back half melodramatic, repetitive, and staged, faulting the film… Read it there →
Pareeksha - The Final Test Movie Review: A predictable take on the plight of have-nots in our society Read it there →
Published · 2.5/5Filmi’s reading 30
50
How this number was made. We read every review and derive a 0–100 reading from each — including where the critic printed a number, which stays first on its row, because it’s theirs. The Filmi Score is the mean of 6 readings; 3 of those rows also carry the critic’s own rating, shown beside ours. Rubric v2.1, computed 26 Oct 2026. Any critic can ask us to remove a derived reading.
PublishedStated in videoDerived by FilmiNo score
One email on Fridays: the five films worth your time, read from every review. See the latest issue
Pareeksha: quick answers
Box office, where to watch and what critics said — from the same data as the page.
What is Pareeksha's OTT release date?
Pareeksha arrived on OTT on 6 Aug 2020 on ZEE5 in India.
Where can I watch Pareeksha?
Pareeksha is streaming on OTT: Vi Movies and TV (India) and ZEE5 (India). Availability comes from JustWatch and is checked every Friday.
What did critics say about Pareeksha?
Pareeksha has a Filmi Score of 62 (Good), the mean of 6 readings of critic reviews, one per review. Readings run from 30 (Times of India) to 82 (Filmi Indian). Every review and how it was scored is listed below.
What readers say
The Audience Score appears once three readers’ reviews have been read under the rubric — built from what people write, never from the rating numbers.
