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  2. REVIEWS

  3. Thumbnail for London Film Festival 2015: 'Aligarh' - Old India vs New India... - Asian Culture VultureLondon Film Festival 2015: 'Aligarh' - Old India vs New India... - Asian Culture Vulture
    October 15 2015 Based on a true story, this film got one of its first ever screenings at the London Film Festival... IT'S BOLD, it's different and in an Indian context, it's quite controversial.
    Asian Culture Vulture
  4. "It’s a well-crafted production with a lovely understated central performance by Manoj Bajpayee and a great turn also from the younger Rajkummar Rao as a puppyish young reporter looking to earn his spurs... What the film does extremely well is to pose the absurdity of the college’s position and turn the spotlight on the motivations of those who took the offending shots and principally the camera operators’ paymasters."
  5. Thumbnail for UK Asian - #UKAsianReview: Manoj Bajpayee is masterful in Hansal Mehta's powerful 'Aligarh'.UK Asian - #UKAsianReview: Manoj Bajpayee is masterful in Hansal Mehta's powerful 'Aligarh'.
    Events around the world increasingly reveal the construction of the "other" and the politics of exclusion - whether through nationality, religion or gender. Such events also underline social mind sets about the normative and the acceptable. Countering this world view is an urgent call for inclusiveness and tolerance, for human rights and dignity to be shared by all people of the world.
    UK Asian
  6. Sangeeta Dutta in UK Asian: "Ultimately, ‘Aligarh’ belongs to Manoj Bajpai, who owns his character, bringing to life the 64-year-old professor, betrayed by his colleagues, hounded by neighbours, facing a loveless life of solitude. An actor of tremendous ability and range his understated performance is a study in eloquence, residual like poetry."
  7. Thumbnail for Shadows on the WallShadows on the Wall
    The 59th London Film Festival forges ahead with more red carpet mania (that's Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren and John Goodman out last night, for Trumbo). It's only Day 4 and I'm already suffering from burn-out, so tonight I'm taking a break and heading to the theatre!
    Rich Cline
  8. Blogger Rich Cline provides this one-line 4-star review: "It would be easy to write off this true drama as something that could only happen in India, but the film has striking layers of global resonance. Not only is it a vivid depiction of the struggle for human rights, in this case relating to sexuality, but it's also a subtle indictment of how Western media have created a need for everyone to be put into their appropriate box. And it's written, directed and acted with remarkable sensitivity and insight."

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