This might be due to the involvement of Princeton mathematician Manjul Bhargava and Ramanujan specialist Ken Ono, who served as technical consultants. It should be noted that the film has received good reviews from the math community, which seems to rate it as a better movie about numbers than either A Beautiful Mind or The Imitation Game. And Patel stretches a little beyond his normal range as the similarly closed-off Indian. The Man Who Knew Infinity on DVD Apstarring Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones. Irons, as usual, is a treat to watch as the odd bird Hardy, a lifelong bachelor who once described his relationship with Ramanujan as the only 'romantic incident' of his life. At one point, thanks to backlighting, Ramanujan even gets a halo.Īll this said, The Man Who Knew Infinity is not a bad film, but one that plays everything very safe. However, the obligatory scene of Ramanujan racing across the quad with a sheaf of papers in hand, bursting with the need to tell his begrudging mentor of the breakthrough he's just made, wouldn't be out of place in a standard issue romantic comedy.Īnd the music, lighting and script all conspire to hagiographic effect. And doomed.Īll of this is accomplished in a handsome, terrifically conventional fashion designed to flatter whatever audience has wandered into the theater by suggesting they are watching an elevated drama about the life of the mind. Hi For this post, I thought I would take a break from posting math riddles and take a brief moment to draw your attention to an exciting new movie premiering in the United States this week The Man Who Knew Infinity, a biography of Srinivasa Ramanujan directed by Matthew Brown, based on the book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. Initially Hardy insists that the gifted Ramanujan show his inspired work in conventional ways, but eventually he realizes that his prodigy is possessed of intellectual superpowers. The film stars Dev Patel as Srinivasa Ramanujan, a real-life mathematician who, after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns. Hardy is initially suspicious of the brash Indian, but soon sends for Ramanujan, who leaves his new wife (Devika Bhise) to journey to a Cambridge filled with bigoted academics reluctant to take seriously the work of an undereducated subcontinental. (film) The Man Who Knew Infinity is a 2015 British biographical drama film about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) via India-based civil engineer Sir Francis Spring (Stephen Fry, who wrings a lot of juice from a three-minute cameo), a math fan who recognizes Ramanujan's potential and gives him a job. In desperation he reaches out to British mathematician G.A. It doesnt add up.Read Ned Lannamanns review here. Rating: PG-13, for some thematic elements and smoking But while Ramanujan was a fascinating figure in real life, his movie representation is opaque and uninteresting. 82 Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones, Devika Bhise

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