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Matt talked to us during 12th edition of the Dubai Film Festival on the importance of creative licence. From depicting the beautiful grounds and historical buildings of Cambridge, he portrayed the equally beautiful but very different ancient shrines and monuments of Madras, India, Ramanujan's home town, reflecting the two senses of self that Ramanujan lives between.

He played the emotional stunted mathematician convincingly enough that we didn't question the natural change his character underwent as his relationship with Ramanujan developed.ĭirector and script writer, Matt Brown, did a brilliant job in visual storytelling. As GH Hardy he portrayed the complex academic with wit and humour. It's always delightful to watch Jeremy Irons on the big screen. And that responsibility, when it landed on my desk, was bestowed upon me.' I was ashamed that the story hadn't been told earlier. 'To have the opportunity to play someone of legendary status in my opinion was amazing. Dev was in Dubai for the 12th edition of the Dubai Film Festival to prompt the film when he spoke to us about his passion for the project. Given the fact that there is no real footage of the mathematician, Dev was able to display a realistic nobility and incredible resilience to a character who came from a humble background. Dev Patel played the role of Srinivasa Ramanujan with convincing subtlety. In its core the film is about the relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan, who couldn't be further apart in character and beliefs but none the less learn a great deal from one another.

Nevertheless, Brown is a brilliant story teller. There was however a slight oversight in representing deep mathematical problems on screen successfully and, we suspect, budget issues, may have been the reason why the war wasn't as well documented, visually, as it could have been. The year is 1913 and on the onset of WW1, Ramanujan has to deal with racism and the validity of his work.ĭirector Matt Brown draws us into the story using different visual elements and motifs to shed light on the struggles of Ramanujan. The Man Who Knew Infinity, now showing in cinemas in the UAE, tells the real story of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), who lives in India where he is plucked out of obscurity and invited to Trinity College, Cambridge to work with distinguished mathematician GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons).

At first thought, the life of a mathematician sounds like a tedious one.Not this one.

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