aligarh ahead of the release of aligarh a movie based on the life of a gay professor of aligarh muslim university a muslim outfit has written to union minister ravi shankar prasad and to the censor board seeking a change in the films title which it alleges will lower the prestige of the city millat bedari muhim committee has written to union minister of communications and information technology prasad and censor board chief pahlaj nihlani over the title of the movie the outfit claims that the film will paint the whole city as a place where gay practice is common thus lowering its prestige in the eyes of the world the film being directed by hansal mehta is based on the life of shrinivas ramchandra siras a gay professor of the university who was found dead in 2010 however the screenwriter of the film apurva asrani has described the outfits fear as homophobia in the past a film was made on mumbai riots called bombay does that mean everyone in mumbai is communal there was a film called delhi belly where the actors used profane language so does that mean everyone in delhi uses profanity he said condemning the choice of the title the members wrote in the letter aligarh is famous for education lock and hardware industries culture and tradition now with the title of the film which is based on the life of a gay professor all of its assets mentioned above will suffer from a negative impact siras was found dead in his apartment at durga wadi in aligarh on 7 april 2010