The Extended Canon
Aligarh
अलीगढ़ · 2015
A Marathi professor is suspended after being filmed in his own home, and refuses to be anyone's cause.
- Director
- Hansal Mehta
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Biography · Drama
- Cast
- Manoj Bajpayee, Rajkummar Rao
Why it's in the canon
Manoj Bajpayee's greatest performance — a study in loneliness rather than martyrdom.
A Marathi professor is suspended after being filmed in his own home, and refuses to be anyone's cause.
Aligarh sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Hansal Mehta — also responsible for Shahid.
- Released in 2015, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Biography, Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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