‘Aligarh’ Director Hansal Mehta Disappointed With National Awards Results
Hansal Mehta‘s widely-acclaimed film Aligarh, which stars Manoj Bajpayee in the lead role, failed to make it to the winners list of the 64th National Film Awards and Mehta is very disappointed with the result.
He expressed his disappointment on Twitter, writing,
Am getting calls asking me if Aligarh was entered for the National Awards and if i was disappointed with the.. pic.twitter.com/93cw80iv7b
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) April 7, 2017
My only hope is that the debate over Section 377 and LGBTQ rights is not ignored. If Aligarh has shone a light on.. pic.twitter.com/pusrCThOkl
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) April 7, 2017
Aligarh is the true story of Dr Shrinivas Ramchandra Siras (played by Manoj), a professor of Marathi and the head of the Classical Modern Indian Languages Faculty at the famed Aligarh Muslim University, who was suspended for being gay.
"With Masters in Mass Communications, this former beauty queen has an opinion on just about everything under the sun and even beyond that. Her passion for writing and everything that spells films and fashion, are the reasons why she made a career in entertainment journalism"
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