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Aligarh (2016)

Directed by Hansal Mehta

Overview

Set in the city of Uttar Pradesh and based on true events, the plot revolves around Dr. Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras who taught Marathi at Aligarh Muslim University. He was sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages, on charges of homosexuality. A sting operation was conducted by a TV channel which showed him in an embrace with a rickshaw puller, at his house inside the campus.

Length 114 minutes

Actors

Manoj Bajpayee | Rajkummar Rao | Ishwak Singh | Dilnaz Irani | Sukhesh Arora | Balaji Gauri | Sumit Gulati | K.R. Parmeshwar | Nutan Surya | Suman Vaidya | Ashish Vidhyarthi | Prashant Kumar | Nitin Goel | Sachin Parikh | Barnali Medhi | Eisha Chopra | Gita Guha | Saptarishi | Sanjay Math | Jagdish Chandra | Bhartendra Singh | Jaspal Sandhu | Raees Khan | Sudesh Saini | Harish Badola | Naval Shukla | Urmil Kumar Thapliyal | Apurva Asrani | Aditya Sharma | Raziq Khan