Yet they grow to be the closest of friends either has ever had. Where Ramanujan is quite an emotional and impulsive character, Hardy is measured, reticent and meticulous. Where Ramanujan is deeply religious and believes his intuitive and remarkable solutions to mathematical mysteries come direct from his god, Hardy is an atheist. Patel is a brilliant choice, especially playing opposite Jeremy Irons as his mentor at Cambridge, Professor Hardy, a man his total opposite emotionally and spiritually. His determination was sometimes mistaken for ego, and this is well portrayed in Matt Brown’s film, while his transition from life within Indian culture to 1913-1920 Cambridge society is perfunctory, one of the film’s weaker points.Īdapted from Robert Kanigel’s biography, the film begins and ends in Madras, as did Ramanujan’s life. What matters more than the physical portrayal is the character portrayal and the way his experience defied his circumstances and the social culture of the era. It’s a great story and so far untold on screen, of a born maths genius from Madras, who even at the age of 7 was revealing mathematical formulas of some complexity. Review: He was a dumpy sort of guy, unlike the young star who portrays him in this film, Dev Patel, but that really doesn’t matter, since hardly anyone has a mental picture of Ramanujan – even if they’ve heard of him. The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India’s greatest modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds. Forced to leave his young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World War One. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Synopsis: In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Stars: Jeremy Irons, Dev Patel, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi Writer: Matt Brown (screenplay), Matt Brown, Robert Kanigel (biography)
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