Aligarh National award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s real life-inspired drama “Aligarh” will open the upcoming 17th Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival here on October 29.
“Aligarh”, starring Rajkummar Rao and Manoj Bajpayee, is based on the real life incident of professor Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras, who was fired from his job because of his sexual orientation “Aligarh” will become the second Hindi film to open the festival since its foundation in 1998. Veteran actress Jaya Bachchan-starrer “Hazar Chaurasi Ki Maa” opened the festival in 1997.
Rao also shared the news on the micro-blogging site and congratulate the cast and crew members of the film.