An Engineered Dream

About the film

Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenaged students from all across the country to prepare for the undergraduate competitive exams. These students reside in cubicle sized hostel rooms and study more than 15 hours a day for two consecutive years to crack the entrance exams for prestigious colleges that has acceptance rate of less than one percent. These students face intense insurmountable pressure from coaching institutes, peers and their families which not everyone is equipped to cope with, resulting in some students end up taking the extreme step of suicide.