Aligarh
2015 · Movie · 114 min
★ 6.6(54)unSUB Rating
A quiet university professor’s private life is exposed, triggering suspension and public scrutiny. As a determined journalist follows the case, the story becomes a moving look at dignity, loneliness, and the fight for privacy amid social prejudice and institutional pressure.
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Details
- Original title
- अलीगढ़
- Years
- 2015
- Release date
- 2016-02-26
- Language
- Hindi
- Runtime
- 114 min
- TMDB rating (input)
- 6.8/10 (54 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a serious, intimate drama about privacy, prejudice, and quiet resilience, with strong performances and a reflective tone, similar to Shahid; Not for you if you want a light, fast-paced watch.
Pros: deeply humane story; powerful lead performances; thoughtful, restrained tone | Cons: slow pacing at times; journalist arc uneven; heavy, bleak mood
Themes
- lgbt
Cast & crew
Manoj Bajpayee
as Professor Siras
Rajkummar Rao
as Deepu Sebastian
Ishwak Singh
as Arvind Narayan
Dilnaz Irani
as Namita
- SA
Sukhesh Arora
as Tahir Islam
Balaji Gauri
as Nita Grewal
Sumit Gulati
as Tashi
- KP
K.R. Parmeshwar
as Prof. Sridharan
- NS
Nutan Surya
as Anjali Gopalan
- SV
Suman Vaidya
as Shadab Qureshi
Directed by Hansal Mehta