Aligarh (2016) asked simple questions that still feel uncomfortable: Who is entitled to privacy without suspicion? Who is allowed desire without becoming spectacle? The film does not announce. It mourns. And that is perhaps why it endures. Aligarh (2016) is directed by and written by Hansal Mehta, presenting a sensitive dramatization of real-life events surrounding privacy, discrimination and dignity.The film stars Manoj Bajpayee as Dr.