Lesser Known Movies you must watch - 11

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Cast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones

The 11th movie that we are recommending is a biopic about the world greatest Indian mathematician of all times Srinivas Ramanujan. This movie is about Ramanujan story during world war 1 where he gets admitted to Cambridge university and his theories become widely famous with the help of professor G.H.Hardy (Jeremy Irons).

Born in Madras to a very poor family Ramanujan a child genius gets noticed with his exceptional mathematical skills in solving accounting tasks very easily. His employees sees him as someone with extraordinary skills and encourage him to create his own writings on common mathematical problems. All those writings are sent across professors in different universities , one of them is received by G.H. Hardy in Cambridge who decides to bring Ramanujan to UK.

Ramanujan ,a married man at that time decides to pursue on the offer of Hardy and goes to Cambridge even though it requires him to be living separately from his wife for a long period. Living in UK is not easy as he faces lot of Racial preconceptions , the food not to his liking and many other discomforts. Even Hardy become concerned as Ramanujan’ s lacking ability to provide proofs and lacking effective communication leads him to face many challenges. But his trust towards Ramanujan helps him to publish a Major Journal.

This is where Ramanujan finds out that he is suffering from tuberculosis and his condition and health and abilities starts deteriorating. Hardy continuously sees promise in his abilities but is unaware of his personal difficulties including health, loneliness and other issues. His health continuously worsens but his mathematically discoveries and research increases. Hardy after seeing his efforts proposes Ramanujan to be inducted in the fellowship program of Cambridge University. University politics initially didn’t allow him to get what he wanted for Ramanujan but eventually with the effort from his fellow members in the faculty, he eventually is able to get him accepted as a Fellow of the Trinity College (A rare scenario in which Indian getting accepted in Fellowship). Ramanujan decides to go back to be with his family as his health continuously declines and lives with his family during his last days.

This movie even though didn’t become quite famous but needs to be appreciated for its mere acting by Jeremy irons and Dev Patel who was entirely into the Ramanujan’ s character. The supporting cast has been equally good and well placed where required. The movie art directions is brilliant creating the world War 1 environment and the dressing and makeup has been top class. Ramanujan’ s story needs to be heard as he was a rare talent , a genius who came and conquered and then returned to the almighty (Restored).

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