Aligarh

Aligarh

114 mins | Drama | Feb. 26, 2016

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.

Aligarh

114 mins | Drama | Feb. 26, 2016

Aligarh
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.
IMDb rating 7.8
Producers Eros International, Karma Pictures
Original title अलीगढ़
Directors Ankur Maan, Jai Mehta, Hansal Mehta
Writers Apurva Asrani

Cast

Sukhesh Arora

as Tahir Islam

Manoj Bajpayee

as Professor Siras

Balaji Gauri

as Nita Grewal

Sumit Gulati

as Tashi

Delnaaz Irani

as Namita

K.R. Parmeshwar

as Prof. Sridharan

Rajkummar Rao

as Deepu Sebastian

Ishwak Singh

as Arvind Narayan

Nutan Surya

as Anjali Gopalan

Suman Vaidya

as Shadab Qureshi

Ashish Vidhyarthi

as Anand Grover