‘Ramanujan’ tells the human story of an Indian mathematician who languished in the grip of a disdainful society and a scornful academia. It means to demonstrate the genius that enabled him to overcome the poverty of his material circumstances and the indifference of his peers to emerge and be recognized as a great savant by the world. The adverse social conditions in South India at the time saw Ramanujan’s mathematical capabilities dismissed by traditional fellow Indians, pushing him to take up employment as a clerk and subsist on meager wages. It was an Englishman, Professor G. H. Hardy, who recognized Ramanujan’s genius while the Indian academia shunned him. Professor Hardy took the native clerk to Cambridge, where he facilitated Ramanujan’s research in mathematics. In England, Ramanujan’s quintessential contribution to mathematics got him elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
The teaser of the movie was unveiled on Srinivasa Ramanujan's death anniversary.
During filming in Kumbakonam streets, most of the moment when the director Gnana Rajasekaran said "action", it would start raining heavily and this happened five times in a row when the whole cast were ready for the shoot.
Earlier Gnana Rajasekaran had an idea of casting Tamil actors R Madhavan and Prasanna for the role of Ramanujan, however, Rajasekaran preferred Telugu actor Abhinay Vaddi instead, as he felt that his piercing eyes and nose resembled those of the actual mathematician.
Gnana Rajasekaran conducted several workshops for the cast before the actual shooting began in order to help them get into the skin of the character.
The British actors in the movie knew their Tamil so fluently that they surprisingly got it bang on in their very first take, however while filming the English scenes, the actors had to do a couple of re-takes to get their lines right.
Ramanujan is the first film to have been given permission to be filmed in the famous Sarangapani temple in Kumbakonam. No other film, Tamil or any other language, has been given this privilege before.
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