Patel is an excellent Ramunajan as is Iron an excellent Hardy (actually, the whole cast is great). The movie emphasizes Hardy's insistence that Ramunajan offer proofs for his theorems, i.e., deductive reasoning, instead of just relying on intuition in order to get formally published in reputable journals. Although I give it a solid five stars, I have two major irritations with the movie. First, Ramunajan's early failure at university and his discovery of a mathematical book (which sparked a frenzy of work) is ignored.
In 1913, Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel), a self-taught Indian genius, traveled to Cambridge where he forged a lifelong bond with his eccentric math professor, G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), while fighting a world that refused to acknowledge his achievements.
Starring: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise
Runtime: 1 hour, 48 minutes
