Aligarh (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.
Country: India
Directors: Hansal Mehta
Casts: Sukhesh Arora as Tahir Islam, Manoj Bajpayee as Professor Siras, Balaji Gauri as Nita Grewal, Sumit Gulati as Tashi, Dilnaz 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
