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Hansal Mehta’s ‘Aligarh’ will be the opening film of this year’s Mumbai International Film Festival
Hansal Mehta’s ‘Aligarh’ has been selected as opening film of the Mumbai International Film festival. Prior to Aligargh, the film was premiered at the Busan International Film Festival and another a scheduled screening of ‘Aligarh’ will be on 10th October at the BFI London Film Festival.
‘So the #Aligarh screening at #Busan is over. Now to London for #BFI LFF and then Mumbai for #JioMAMI’- Filmmaker Hansal Mehta Tweeted
The Film tells the story of Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras (Manoj Bajpai) who was the professor at the Aligarh Muslim University, and later accused of homosexuality and it ends up his suicide. Rajkummar Rao is another lead character of this film, where he plays the role of a journalist. Screenplay of this Film was handled by Apurva Asrani and produced by Sandeep Singh.
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