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 (2016)
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Manoj Bajpayee
Professor Siras

Rajkummar Rao
Deepu Sebastian

Ishwak Singh
Arvind Narayan

Dilnaz Irani
Namita
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Sukhesh Arora
Tahir Islam

Balaji Gauri
Nita Grewal

Sumit Gulati
Tashi
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K.R. Parmeshwar
Prof. Sridharan
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Nutan Surya
Anjali Gopalan
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