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| Jeremy Irons | ... | G.H. Hardy | |
| Dev Patel | ... | S. Ramanujan | |
| Malcolm Sinclair | ... | Professor Cartwright | |
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Raghuvir Joshi | ... | Narasimha |
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Dhritiman Chatterjee | ... | Narayana Iyer (as Dhritiman Chaterji) |
| Stephen Fry | ... | Sir Francis Spring | |
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Arundathi Nag | ... | Komalatammal |
| Devika Bhise | ... | Janaki | |
| Pádraic Delaney | ... | Beglan | |
| Toby Jones | ... | Littlewood | |
| Jeremy Northam | ... | Bertrand Russell | |
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San Shella | ... | Dr. Muthu |
| Richard Cunningham | ... | Hobson | |
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Thomas Bewley | ... | Baker |
| Anthony Calf | ... | Howard | |
In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. 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. 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. Written by Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
I saw this movie at the International Film Festival Of India (IFFI), Goa. Most anticipated film which I felt got over in no time. So beautifully directed, enthralling from the very first cut. This is so far the finest performance by Dev Patel. Without Jeremy Irons this film would have been toothless, seeing him for the first time I have never seen a character executed with such panache. Overall a film cannot get better than this, there are some flaws which every film has but are forgivable and probably intended to show the audience that way. Not a film to watch for the entertainment value only but solely for the essence of film watching. A standing ovation to Matthew Brown.