In 2001 a 7-year-old boy from a remote village in the Himalayas performed surgery on a local shepherd girl. News spread fast and the boy was invited to be tested by the Gifted Development Centre in the US. He was revealed to have the highest IQ ever recorded for his age. Akrit Jaswal is now 12 years old and he is considered in his local village to be a reincarnation. He has been working on a cure for cancer for the last two years based on theories of oral gene therapy, but the resources in his North Indian village are limited. This film joins Akrit on a journey to the Imperial Cancer Research Laboratory in London where he will put his mental abilities to the test for the first time. Finally Akrit will be tested again to see if he still has one of the most incredible brains of the 21st Century.
Akrit Pran Jaswal (born April 23, 1993, Nurpur) is an Indian adolescent who is a child prodigy as a surgeon. He performed his first surgery at the age of seven. According to his mother Raksha Kumari Jaswal, Akrit was an early starter, skipped the toddler stage and started walking. He started speaking in his 10th month and was reading Shakespeare at the age of 5.
Akrit developed a passion for science and anatomy at an early age. Doctors at local hospitals took notice and started allowing him to observe surgeries when he was 7 years old. Inspired by what he saw, Akrit read everything he could on the topic.
When he was seven years old, an impoverished family unable to pay for regular healthcare heard about his amazing abilities, and asked if he would operate on their daughter. The surgery was successful and was widely celebrated. Akrit hopes to someday continue his studies at the Harvard.
At 12 years old, he is the youngest person to get admitted in a medical university in India (Punjab University).
Akrit Jaswal has an estimated IQ of 146. .
