The young Indian endures a turbulent, physically and psychologically damaging time at Cambridge University's Trinity College at the dawn of the First World War – not a great time for a non-white to be visiting England's green and pleasant land, as it turns out. Thankfully, director Matthew Brown's heavy-handed, possibly dramatic license-enhanced emphasis on cliched romantic plot points only slightly lessens the impact of the bigger picture at hand, as the sensitive, brilliant Ramanujan (Dev Patel) leaves his new wife Janaki (Devika Bhise), overbearing mother (Arundhati Nag) and humble origins in Madras behind to pursue the numbers swirling around his gifted brain at one of England's most esteemed seats of learning. ![]() THE Man Who Knew Infinity is based on the extraordinary life story of self-taught pure mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
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