The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
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- 1 win & 3 nominations
Dhritiman Chatterjee
- Narayana Iyer
- (as Dhritiman Chaterji)
Kevin McNally
- Major Percy Alexander MacMahon
- (as Kevin R. McNally)
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- TriviaThroughout his life, Ramanujan was plagued by health problems. His health worsened in England. A 1994 analysis of Ramanujan's medical records and symptoms by Dr. D. A. B. Young concluded that it was much more likely he had hepatic amoebiasis, an illness then widespread in Madras, rather than tuberculosis. He had two episodes of dysentery before he left India. When not properly treated, dysentery can lie dormant for years and lead to hepatic amoebiasis. Amoebiasis was a treatable and often curable disease at the time.
- GoofsCambridge was not bombed by Zeppelins in World War I.
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Littlewood: Don't be intimidated. Great knowledge comes from the humblest of origins.
- Crazy creditsCard before the title: "Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty." - Bertrand Russell
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Saturday Show: Episode #1.24 (2016)
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Finite and Formulaic
It's amazing how much like mathematics this film is. It is strikingly formulaic and everything in it obeys strict laws and forms tight patterns. Ramanujan may have reached for the sky without due process but this film certainly doesn't. Still, his story is a great one and elements of a very human struggle remain. It's the usual stuff in terms of plot, characterization and emotional manipulation but one would be a hard nut indeed if one wasn't touched by it at all. Of the two main parts, though, it is Jeremy Irons' Professor Hardy (who fought against the paradoxically quite brainless prejudices of The University of Cambridge) who comes across most strongly. One warms, too, to Toby Jones' Littlewood
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- Apr 11, 2016
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- Cheksizlikni anglagan inson
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- Budget
- $10,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,866,794
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $80,325
- May 1, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $12,252,684
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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