Aligarh is based on the heartbreaking and powerful story of Professor Siras, a prolific teacher who faced abject humiliation and persecution at the hands of university authorities and other citizens for being gay. On February 8th 2010, a crew from a local TV station secretly filmed Professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) having sex with a rickshaw puller in his house inside the university campus. The video led to condemnation by conservative religious groups and the university administration suspended him and asked him to leave the campus. Students stand in support for the Professor, but the University officials are adamant. A young journalist Dipu Sebestain investigates this issue into details and brings out the real picture in front of the entire world. After which few NGO’s and a top lawyer, comes out to help Prof. Siras...
DVD9 | NTSC 16:9 | 01:58:15 | 7.44 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Hindi
Subtitles: English, Arabic
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director: Hansal Mehta
Cast: Sukhesh Arora, Manoj Bajpayee, Balaji Gauri
Country: India