Neither the cold and aloof Hardy nor his warm and witty fellow mathematician JE Littlewood (Toby Jones) can quite understand the work, nor how a self-taught Brahmin from Tamil Nadu could come up with it. Most of the film takes place in Cambridge, after Ramanujan has been invited to England to explain the theories he put forward in a letter to the eminent Cambridge mathematician, GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), in 1913. Assuming you don't care about accuracy in his life story. Let's start again: if you don't mind a broad melodrama about a fascinating and mysteriously gifted man who revolutionised mathematical thinking, then this is your film. The casting of Dev Patel as Ramanujan was all but inevitable in that sense: get the guy from Slumdog Millionaire and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel!
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