Manoj Bajpayee’s much-awaited film “Aligarh” has been released now and here is the quick review of this film. The film is based on the true story of Professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras. The story is the heart-wrenching story of Siras (played by Manoj Bajpayee) who is kicked out of the university after he makes headlines after being caught engaging in physical intimacy with a male rickshaw puller in his own home. Siras – a Marathi linguistic professor from Aligarh Muslim University – is caught after a group of fellow professors and journalists barge into his home.
Enter budding journalist Deepu Sebastian ( Rajkumar Rao ), whose out-of-the-box thinking helps Siras open up about his story. They instantly develop a bond and the film ends with a complete telling of Siras’s tale.