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Name: The Man Who Knew Infinity Movie Review
Item: The Man Who Knew Infinity
Rating: 3.25
Author: Pradip Bhat

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Review for the film " The Man Who Knew Infinity"

Streaming On: Amazon Prime Video

Runtime: 1 Hour 49 Minutes

Certificate: U

Released: 29-04-2016

Genre: Drama, Biography

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CAST & CREW

Richard Cunningham

Roger Narayan

Shazad Latif

Stephen Fry

Toby Jones

Ganesh S Hegde

Harsh Dave

Swati Bhise

Raj Acharya

Devika Bhise

Dev Patel

Jeremy Irons

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Producer:

Jon Katz

Sofia Sondervan

Matthew Brown

Joe Thomas

Jim Young

Edward R Pressman

Music Director:

Coby Brown

Editor:

JC Bond

Director:

Matthew Brown

Movie Actor:

Jeremy Irons

Dev Patel

Supporting Actress:

Devika Bhise

Costume Designer:

Ann Maskrey

Art Director:

Andrew Munro

Sound Designer:

Samir Foco

First Assistant Director:

Raj Acharya

Second Assistant Director:

Livia Aranha

Director of Photography:

Larry Smith

Executive Producer:

Swati Bhise

Gary Ellis

Line Producer:

Harsh Dave

Meeta Dave

Associate Producer:

Tayyab Madni

Manjul Bhargava

Nick Bain

Melissa Robyn Glassman

David Cochrane

Casting Director:

Reg Poerscout-Edgerton

Production Company:

Xeitgeist Entertainment Group

Edward R Pressman Film

Cayenne Pepper Productions

Animus Films

empty:

Tim Cavagin

Visual Effects Supervisor:

Piers Hampton

Gaffer:

Ganesh S Hegde

Production Designer:

Luciana Arrighi

Makeup Artist:

Louise Coles

Cate Hall

Annette Field

Special Effects Technician:

Neil Damman

Stunt Coordinator:

Crispin Layfield

Digital Compositor:

Svilen Aynadzhiev

Will Hardwick

Sound Mixer:

Ian Voigt

Adam Mendez

Supporting Actor:

Stephen Fry

Shazad Latif

Roger Narayan

Richard Cunningham

Toby Jones

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Generally, the biopics about mathematical genii project on the screen the fervent efforts to calculate mind boggling equations. Their ability to do so baffles the live spectators and the audiences around. Srinivasa Ramanujan remains unexplained genii to the present generation. The present day researchers are left dumbfound at the mind-boggling equations solved by Srinivasa Ramanujan. Trying to put all into a biopic is a bit difficult.

Plot:

The movie runs for about 109 minutes and lays stress more on the professor who guided Srinivasa Ramanujan in the course that he took. The movie also highlights the romance between Ramanujan and his wife and lays more stress on the romantic emotions that Ramanujan entertained. To be precise, the story is about the struggle that Ramajunan, as a Tamil guy, had in the foreign soil and his battle with ill-health.

Star Performances

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Analysis

There are places where the movie seems to be an overly dramatized version of Ramanujan’s life. Too much of stress is given on the romance rather than the intellectual prodigy that Ramanujan was. In the movie, initially, Professor Hardy does not show any due interest on Ramanujan. But, the truth is that right from the beginning, the professor had been standing besides Ramanujan and supporting him.

What is There?

The movie leaves us gaping at the closeness between Professor Hardy and Ramanujan.
The movie is quite simple and does not leave the audiences in confusion.

What is Not There?

The director seems to be more skilled in bringing forth the details of Ramanujan’s life in Cambridge rather than his life in India.
The projection of relationship between Ramanujan and his mother has been shown in an overly dramatized manner.

Verdict

The true story of Ramanujan requires a different output, but the movie has managed to come out well if one keeps in mind the limitations that a biopic has.

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