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Aligarh, a work of real art
About the Aligarh’s castings
Hansal Metha, an Indian film director, who has given some tremendous movies in Indian cinema, Bollywood, like City Lights in 2014 and Scam in 2020, and his work is totally different in each film.
About actors in lead roles
Manoj Bapayee’s masterpiece in Family man and in Baaghi 2.
Rajkumar Rao’s mind-blowing performance in City lights and in Chalaang.
Summary of the Aligarh Movie
Aligarh is a 2015 Indian biographical drama film, which is directed by Hansal Mehta and written by Apurva Asrani. Its stars Manoj Bajpayee and Rajkummar Rao are in the lead roles.
The film was released first in Busan on 4th of October 2015 and worldwide on 26th of February 2016 in India too.
Further, it’s budget was 11 core and has earned 4.27 core only, and it is full-timing is 144 minutes.
Moreover, the film had its world premiere at the 20th Busan International Film Festival, receiving a standing ovation and Manoj Bajpayee won critical acclaim and a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Ramchandra Siras.
Set in the city of Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh.
The film is about the certifiable story of Ramchandra Siras, a professor of Marathi and the head of the Classical Modern Indian Languages Faculty at the famed Aligarh Muslim University, who was suspended on grounds of morality. He was also sacked from his position of Reader and Chair of Modern Indian Languages.
Begining
The film begins at the time when the professor’s privacy is occupied by some local TV reporters from a local TV station who forcefully enter his house and picturized him while he is having sex with a male rickshaw-puller.
Middle
Then the University forces Siras ( Manoj Bapayee) to leave the house as soon as possible and they suspend him from his job.
As the story continues, no one is ready to rent him a house because he lives a very lonely life in the rush city and has been considered a gay and jobless too.
Conclusion
Later on, he contacts a journalist, named Deepu Sebastian (Raj Kummar Rao) who is sympathetic to him.
As the film continues some gay lawyers take his case to the court and the court rules in his favour and revokes Siras’ suspension but before he can return to work, he is found dead.
Why watch Aligarh?
The first thing which makes this film different from other Indian films is it is a story which explains to us the reality of our society which surrounds everyone’s life but on one is eager to accept it.
And the second most important speciality is it is actors who may not have a famous name like Salman Khan in Bollywood but they play their roles like real artists.