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Ramanujan
Directed byGnana Rajasekaran
Produced bySrivatsan Nadathur
Sushant Desai
Sharanyan Nadathur
Sindhu Rajasekaran
Written byGnana Rajasekaran
StarringAbhinay Vaddi
Abbas
Suhasini Maniratnam
Kevin McGowan
Bhama
Michael Lieber
Music byRamesh Vinayakam
CinematographySunny Joseph
Edited byB. Lenin
  • 11 July 2014
153 minutes
CountryIndia
United Kingdom
LanguageTamil
English

Ramanujan is a 2014 biographical film based on the life of renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The film, written and directed by Gnana Rajasekaran, was shot back to back in the Tamil and English languages.[1]Ramanujan was produced by the independent Indian production house Camphor Cinema. The cast consists of Indian and British film, stage and screen personalities. It marks the film debut of Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actors Gemini Ganesan and Savitri, as the protagonist.

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Plot[edit]

Set in the early 1900s, the film traces the life of the prodigious math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan from the time he was a young Tamil Brahmin to his years in England, where he attended Cambridge University during World War I. The film follows his relationships with his mother Komalatammal, his wife Janaki, and his collaborator Professor G. H. Hardy. The film also showcases how Indian society viewed a mathematician of such great stature.[2]

Cast[edit]

  • Abhinay Vaddi as Srinivasa Ramanujan[3]
  • Suhasini Maniratnam as Komalatammal ( Srinivasa Ramanujan's Mother[4] )
  • Bhama as Janaki ( Srinivasa Ramanujan's Wife[5] )
  • Kevin McGowan as G. H. Hardy
  • Abbas as Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
  • Anmol as Young Srinivasa Ramanujan
  • Michael Lieber as John Edensor Littlewood
  • Richard Walsh as Francis Spring
  • Sharath Babu as Diwan Bahadur R. Ramachandra Rao I. C. S.
  • Radha Ravi as Prof. Singaravelu Mudaliar
  • Madhan Bob as Prof. Krishna Shastri
  • Y. G. Mahendran as S. Narayana Iyer
  • Manobala as Krishna Rao
  • Nizhalgal Ravi as Srinivasa Raghavan
  • Satish Kumar as Anandhu
  • Thalaivasal Vijay as Sathiyapriya Rayar
  • Manibharathi as Krishnan
  • Raja Krishnamoorthy as Seshu Iyer
  • T. P. Gajendran as T. Namberumal Chetty
  • Cloudia Swann as Ms. Bourne
  • Mike Parish as Doctor Charles
  • Harsh Naik as Chatterjee
  • Lizzie Bourne as Ms. Gertrude Hardy

Production[edit]

Casting[edit]

'We had very few photos of Ramanujan and his family. So, we had to purely depend on whatever information was available on the social setup of Iyengars and other castes of that period. We had to design costumes keeping in mind the three phases of his life and those surrounding him — the Kumbakonam phase, his life in Chennai and then, in London,'

— Shakuntala, on designing the looks for Ramanujan[6]

Gnana Rajasekaran looked for an actor, who would physically resemble Ramanujan and signed Abhinay Vaddi for the main role, who is the grandson of veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan. Michael Lieber was signed to play Edensor Littlewood. Lieber confessed he had no knowledge of Ramanujan, when he signed the film, and went as far as to meet Béla Bollobás, who worked with Littlewood personally, for his research work. He found it difficult to speak the Tamil lines, but appreciated it later on, 'I would be lying if I said that the task of learning Tamil was not daunting at first, but once I got the hang of it I was able to appreciate what a beautiful language it is. There were many different ways of learning the Tamil lines; some used audio tapes, prompting, flash cards, or word boards. I learnt the meaning of the words and memorised chunks of dialogue.'[1] Similarly, Kevin McGowan, who was signed for the role of G. H. Hardy, was unfamiliar with the story of Ramanujan. The film also stars Bhama, Suhasini Maniratnam, Abbas and Richard Walsh amongst others.[7][8]Sunny Joseph, best known for his high-profile Malayalam works with directors Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shaji N. Karun, was signed as cinematographer.

Filming[edit]

A still from the film

The film has been shot in the five main locations of Ramanujan's life, Kumbakonam, Namakkal, Chennai, London and Cambridge.[9] The first two schedules were shot in India while the third was done in England, where they took the permission of Cambridge University to shoot.[10] The task to create a script in multiple languages was described by Sindhu Rajasekaran as 'quite a chore. Roxane de Rouen and I are working with Gnana Rajasekaran, the director of ‘Ramanujan,’ to make the characters speak words that make them real. No, you wouldn't find roadside urchins who speak in Queen's English here; people would speak what comes to them naturally: Tamil, English, Indian English, even Tamenglish. What a delight it is to live in this world where languages are not borders, but an element to experiment with..'[11]

Music[edit]

'My music tries to delve into the unfathomable mysterious and mystical mind of Ramanujan in its own world, which invariably found bliss in the triumph of originating newer and newer theorems. The music represents the tribulations of Ramanujan's life torn between hope and despair, and the loneliness that came along with the genius'.

— Vinayakam, on composing the music for Ramanujan[12]

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The film's soundtrack and score were composed by Ramesh Vinayakam. Vinayakam called it an honour to have composed music for the film and 'an opportunity for me to travel on a new path' and added that he was given the required creative freedom by the director and producer.[13] He said that he had to go classical for one part of the film and into European sounds for another segment.[14] No modern instruments, but old world instruments were used in order to bring the period alive,[13] while four orchestral pieces were recorded in Germany, where the composer worked with the Stuttgart-based GermanPops Orchestra that has worked on contemporary and classical styles.[14] Being a film about a mathematician, the songs were related to mathematical terms as well. Poet Vaali had written a number, 'Narayana Narayana', which was said to 'incorporate the idea of infinity and nothingness', while another number, written by Thirumalisai Alvar thousands of years ago, 'stresses that numbers are absolute'.[15] One of the instrumental tracks, 'One to Zero' was described as a 'musical metaphor' as it was based on the numbers, with Vinayakam explaining, 'One is represented by one note, two by two notes and so on, while zero is represented by a rest.[15] After the initial exposition, at any point of time, three of these layers criss-cross each other from a distance of one beat from each other'.[14] 'Narayana' was sung by Vani Jayaram, who said that she was initially surprised that she was given a song whose pitch (shruthi) was less than what she usually sings in but came to know that, in the days of Ramanujan, people only sang in that pitch.[14]

The soundtrack album of Ramanujan was released at the Suryan FM radio station in Chennai on 13 June 2014.[16] The album, which features eight tracks, including four songs and four instrumentals, was praised by critics. Indiaglitz in its review wrote, 'Ramesh Vinayakam was always there and thereabouts with his wonderful albums in the past. With this album he has struck the right chords towards his name once again. This must be the break he's been looking for years'. musicaloud.com gave it a score of 9 out of 10 and wrote, 'Ramesh Vinayakam expertly draws from Carnatic and Western classical styles to produce one of the finest period film soundtracks ever'.[17] Behindwoods.com gave it 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, 'Ramanujan enthralls the listener by transporting them to a bygone era of classical music'.[18] Ramanujan was also named by Deccan Music[19] and Milliblog[20] as the best Tamil music album of the year 2014.

No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
1.'Narayana'VaaliKarthik Suresh, Vani Jayaram4:33
2.'Thuli Thuliyai' (Version 1)Na. MuthukumarRamesh Vinayakam, Vinaya4:58
3.'Vinkadantha'Thirumalisai AlvarP. Unnikrishnan3:38
4.'Thuli Thilyay' (Version 2)Na. MuthukumarRamesh Vinayakam, Kaushiki Chakrabarty4:58
5.'Mystic Mind' (Theme)Instrumental3:00
6.'Ramanujan' (Theme)Instrumental3:16
7.'English Notes' (Theme)Instrumental6:58
8.'One To Zero' (Theme)Instrumental3:16

Reception[edit]

The film received mixed reviews from critics, who generally praised the acting but criticized the writing. The Deccan Chronicle called Ramanujan 'a brilliant piece on canvas with edifying moments and relevance to modern age' and went on to add that it was 'not to be missed', giving it 3.5/5 stars.[21] S. Saraswathi of Rediff wrote, 'Ramanujan is a brilliant film, a must watch' and gave the film 4/5.[22] Gautaman Bhaskaran of The Hindustan Times gave the film 3/5 stars and wrote, 'The movie is a poignant look at the way a prodigy struggled and suffered in a penurious family, a mastermind whose mathematical wizardry invited ridicule and revulsion in far lesser mortals. Rajasekaran, who also scripted the film, takes us through a linear narrative to tell us about the intelligence of boy Ramanujan as he completely foxes his school-master with a little insight into the importance of zero, and later about his frustration when he hits a wall in his quest to sink into, and shine, with numbers'.[23]Sify wrote, 'Making biopics is indeed very challenging and the director has been successful to a very large extent to bring out each and every character. Gnana Rajasekaran has done a well-researched biopic on Ramanujam..it is a film that is definitely worth viewing'.[24]IANS gave it 3/5 and wrote, 'Gnana Rajasekaran certainly knows the art and succeeds narrating an inspiring tale, but his work doesn’t resonate deep within. This is so because the director merely recreates several important episodes from Ramanujan’s life on the screen while ignoring the need to build a screenplay to keep the viewers hooked'.[25] Bharath Vijayakumar of Moviecrow rated 3/5 stars and said, 'Ramanujan is a noble effort and a fascinating insight about the life and times of this Maths Wizard who lived all his life in unison with his true love.'.[26]

In contrast, The New Indian Express wrote, 'The director’s persistent effort to bring on celluloid lives of eminent people is laudable. But a movie is not only about the theme, but also about how it is presented on screen. And the presentation of the life and journey of the mathematical genius is disappointing and uninspiring'.[27]Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu wrote, 'The film runs nearly three hours and it’s puzzling why it needed to. There appears to have been no effort to streamline the events of Ramanujan’s life. The writing, too, fails to make Ramanujan interesting', going on to add 'The great man certainly deserved a better movie'.[28] S. Rajasekar from Cinemalead wrote 'On the whole, if you want to know about Ramanujan, go and see this Gnana Rajasekaran’s Ramanujan but if you really want to have a perfect biopic watching experience, I would say the director has missed few things in making Ramanujan as a cult classic.' giving it 3/5.[29]Behindwoods gave it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, 'Rajasekaran should be credited for showcasing the life, tribulations and accomplishments of an unsung Math genius on the silver screen thereby making the legend be known to a wider audience', but called it 'A sincerely made biopic, which falls short of inspiring'.[30] M. Suganth of the Times Of India gave 2.5/5 and wrote, 'For a film that is about a man with astounding talent, the filmmaking is largely unimaginative. The staging is somewhat old-fashioned (read dated), the pacing staid and the film often slips into the kind of melodrama that you nowadays find in TV serials.'.[31]Daily India gave 2.5/5 and stated, 'In overall, Ramanujan is a cleanly made and it's a very rare kind of movie in biopics genre. Editing and cinematography is worth praising. Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actor Gemini Ganesan done a good job and made justice to their roles.'.[32]Indiaglitz gave 2.25/5 and wrote, 'An honest attempt to drive through the life of a genius gets stuck at lot of bumpers.'.[33]

Awards[edit]

Ramanujan won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film of 2013.[34]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ ab'Therein lies the genius'. The Hindu. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  2. ^KrishnamacharI, Suganthy. 'Travails of a genius'. The Hindu. The Hindu. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  3. ^'Life of Srinivasa Ramanujan'. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  4. ^'Komalathammal, Srinivasa Ramanujan's mother'. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  5. ^'Janaki, Srinivasa Ramanujan's wife'. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  6. ^'Designers research for period look in Tamil films'. The Times of India. 19 September 2013.
  7. ^''Camphor Cinema' presents their first film 'Ramanujan''. Boxofficeindia. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  8. ^Harshikaa Udasi (30 November 2013). 'Faces and facts'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  9. ^'Cast and Crew of Ramanujan'. Camphor Cinema. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  10. ^'Ramanujan gets Cambridge University nod for film shoot'. Times of India. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  11. ^'CAMPHOR CINEMA'S INDO – BRITISH COLLABORATION'. This Week Guwahati. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
  12. ^'Ramanujan audio launched'. The Times of India. 14 June 2014.
  13. ^ abIANS (14 June 2014). ''Ramanujan' music represents his life's tribulations: composer'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  14. ^ abcdSrinivasa Ramanujam. 'Of music and mathematics'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  15. ^ ab'Ramanujan to feature songs on numbers - The Times of India'. Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  16. ^Features, Express. 'Ramanujan's Audio Hits the Airwaves'. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  17. ^Vipin (20 June 2014). 'Ramanujam: Music Review (Tamil Movie Soundtrack) Ramesh Vinayakam'. Music Aloud. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  18. ^'Ramanujan (aka) Ramanujan songs review'. Behindwoods.com. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  19. ^2014 Best of Tamil Music Deccan Music - 12 December 2014
  20. ^Milliblog Annual Music Round Up Milliblog - 13 December 2014
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  25. ^Ramanujan movie review - IANS Retrieved 2014-07-13
  26. ^Ramanujan review - Moviecrow Retrieved 2014-07-13
  27. ^Ramanujan movie review - The New Indian Express Retrieved 2014-07-13
  28. ^movie review - The Hindu Retrieved 2014-07-13
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  30. ^Ramanujan movie review - Behindwoods Retrieved 2014-07-12
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  32. ^Ramanujan movie review - Daily India Retrieved 2014-07-13
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  34. ^'2009-14 Tamil Nadu film awards announced'. Deccan Chronicle. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

External links[edit]

  • Ramanujan on IMDb
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SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM PART 1

CHILDHOOD

  • Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu).
  • His father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar, originally from Thanjavur district, worked as a clerk in a sari shop.His mother, Komalatammal, was a housewife and also sang at a local temple.
  • They lived in a small traditional home on Sarangapani Sannidhi Street in the town of Kumbakonam. The family home is now a museum.
  • On 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.After his maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram,Ramanujan and his mother moved back to Kumbakonam and he was enrolled in the Kangayan Primary School.

LIFE BEGINS

Srinivasa
  • He did not like school in Madras, and tried to avoid attending. His family enlisted a local constable to make sure the boy attended school.
  • Since Ramanujan’s father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of the boy as a child. He had a close relationship with her. From her, he learned about tradition and puranas.
  • He learned to sing religious songs, to attend pujas at the temple, and to maintain particular eating habits – all of which are part of Brahmin culture.
  • Just before turning 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, Tamil, geography and arithmetic with the best scores in the district.That year, Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School, where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time.

MATHEMATICS

  • By 14, he was receiving merit certificates and academic awards that continued throughout his school career.He completed mathematical exams in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with geometry and infinite series.
  • In 1903, when he was 16, Ramanujan obtained from a friend a library copy of A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, G. S. Carr’s collection of 5,000 theorems.
  • Ramanujan reportedly studied the contents of the book in detail. The book is generally acknowledged as a key element in awakening his genius.
  • When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics.

TROUBLE YEARS

  • It was in 1910, after a meeting between the 23-year-old Ramanujan and the founder of the Indian Mathematical Society , Ramaswamy Aiyer, also known as Professor Ramaswami, that Ramanujan started to get recognition within the mathematics circles of Madras.
  • On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki a girl whom his mother had selected for him a year earlier.It was not unusual for marriages to be arranged with girls.Ramanujan’s father did not participate in the marriage ceremony.
  • After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at a friend’s house while he went from door to door around Madras looking for a clerical position. To make money, he tutored students at Presidency College.

CAREER

  • Ramanujan met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, who had founded the Indian Mathematical Society.Wishing for a job at the revenue department where Aiyer worked.
  • In early 1912, he got a temporary job in the Madras Accountant General’s office, with a salary of 20 rupees per month. He lasted only a few weeks. Toward the end of that assignment, he applied for a position under the Chief Accountant of the Madras Port Trust.

ENGLAND

  • In 1913, he began writing letters to British mathematicians. Out of these, G. H. Hardy was to be the one who would believe in Ramanujan’s skills.
  • Hardy asked a colleague, J. E. Littlewood, to take a look at the papers. Littlewood was amazed by Ramanujan’s genius. After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were “certainly the most remarkable I have received” and said that Ramanujan was “a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and power”.
  • On 8 February 1913, Hardy wrote Ramanujan a letter expressing his interest in his work. Hardy contacted the Indian Office to plan for Ramanujan’s trip to Cambridge.
  • Hardy’s correspondence with Ramanujan soured after Ramanujan refused to come to England. Hardy enlisted a colleague lecturing in Madras, E. H. Neville, to mentor and bring Ramanujan to England.
  • Apparently, Ramanujan’s mother had a vivid dream in which the family goddess, the deity of Namagiri, commanded her “to stand no longer between her son and the fulfilment of his life’s purpose”.Ramanujan traveled to England by ship, leaving his wife to stay with his parents in India.

SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM PART 2

LIFE IN ENGLAND

  • Ramanujan departed from Madras aboard the S.S. Nevasa on 17 March 1914.When he disembarked in London on 14 April, Neville was waiting for him with a car.
  • Four days later, Neville took him to his house on Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Ramanujan immediately began his work with Littlewood and Hardy.
  • Hardy and Littlewood began to look at Ramanujan’s notebooks. Hardy had already received 120 theorems from Ramanujan in the first two letters, but there were many more results and theorems in the notebooks.
  • Hardy saw that some were wrong, others had already been discovered, and the rest were new breakthroughs.
  • Ramanujan left a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood. Ramanujan spent nearly five years in Cambridge collaborating with Hardy and Littlewood, and published part of his findings there.
  • Their collaboration was a clash of different cultures, beliefs, and working styles.
  • Hardy was an atheist and an apostle of proof and mathematical rigour, whereas Ramanujan was a deeply religious man who relied very strongly on his intuition and insights.
  • While in England, Hardy tried his best to fill the gaps in Ramanujan’s education and to mentor him in the need for formal proofs to support his results, without hindering his inspiration – a conflict that neither found easy.
  • Ramanujan was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers, the first part of which was published as a paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
  • On 6 December 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the second Indian admitted to the Royal Society.
  • At age 31 Ramanujan was one of the youngest Fellows in the history of the Royal Society. On 13 October 1918, he was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

ILLNESS AND DEATH

  • Throughout his life, Ramanujan was plagued by health problems. His health worsened in England; possibly he was also less resilient due to the difficulty of keeping to the strict dietary requirements of his religion in England and wartime rationing during 1914–1918.
  • He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency at the time.In 1919 he returned to Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, and soon thereafter, in 1920, died at the age of 32.

THE EXTERNAL SUPPORT

  • Ramanujan has been described as a person of a somewhat shy and quiet disposition, a dignified man with pleasant manners.He lived a simple life at Cambridge.
  • He credited his acumen to his family goddess, Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work .Afterward he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes.He often said, “An equation for me has no meaning unless it represents a thought of God.“

MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

  • Ramanujam made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions .He began to work on his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series.
  • He worked on divergent series. He sent 120 theorems on imply divisibility properties of the partition function.
  • Partition of whole numbers: Partition of whole numbers is another similar problem that captured ramanujan attention. Subsequently ramanujan developed a formula for the partition of any number, which can be made to yield the required result by a series of successive approximation

MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

  • Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their structure, distribution and special forms.
  • Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is the sum of two squares.
  • Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation:Ramanujam was shown how to solve cubic equations and he went on to find his own method to solve the quadratic.
  • Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and investigated relations between integrals and series
  • Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their structure, distribution and special forms.
  • Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is the sum of two squares.
  • Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation:Ramanujam was shown how to solve cubic equations and he went on to find his own method to solve the quadratic.
  • Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and investigated relations between integrals and series


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  • Ramanujan died in Chicago, on July 13, 1993 as result of adverse reaction to anesthesia during preparation for surgery. Contributions to South Asian Studies A. Ramanujan\'s theoretical and aesthetic contributions span several disciplinary areas.

    Ramanujan
    Directed byGnana Rajasekaran
    Produced bySrivatsan Nadathur
    Sushant Desai
    Sharanyan Nadathur
    Sindhu Rajasekaran
    Written byGnana Rajasekaran
    StarringAbhinay Vaddi
    Abbas
    Suhasini Maniratnam
    Kevin McGowan
    Bhama
    Michael Lieber
    Music byRamesh Vinayakam
    CinematographySunny Joseph
    Edited byB. Lenin
    • 11 July 2014
    153 minutes
    CountryIndia
    United Kingdom
    LanguageTamil
    English

    Ramanujan is a 2014 biographical film based on the life of renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The film, written and directed by Gnana Rajasekaran, was shot back to back in the Tamil and English languages.[1]Ramanujan was produced by the independent Indian production house Camphor Cinema. The cast consists of Indian and British film, stage and screen personalities. It marks the film debut of Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actors Gemini Ganesan and Savitri, as the protagonist.

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    Plot[edit]

    Set in the early 1900s, the film traces the life of the prodigious math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan from the time he was a young Tamil Brahmin to his years in England, where he attended Cambridge University during World War I. The film follows his relationships with his mother Komalatammal, his wife Janaki, and his collaborator Professor G. H. Hardy. The film also showcases how Indian society viewed a mathematician of such great stature.[2]

    Cast[edit]

    • Abhinay Vaddi as Srinivasa Ramanujan[3]
    • Suhasini Maniratnam as Komalatammal ( Srinivasa Ramanujan\'s Mother[4] )
    • Bhama as Janaki ( Srinivasa Ramanujan\'s Wife[5] )
    • Kevin McGowan as G. H. Hardy
    • Abbas as Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
    • Anmol as Young Srinivasa Ramanujan
    • Michael Lieber as John Edensor Littlewood
    • Richard Walsh as Francis Spring
    • Sharath Babu as Diwan Bahadur R. Ramachandra Rao I. C. S.
    • Radha Ravi as Prof. Singaravelu Mudaliar
    • Madhan Bob as Prof. Krishna Shastri
    • Y. G. Mahendran as S. Narayana Iyer
    • Manobala as Krishna Rao
    • Nizhalgal Ravi as Srinivasa Raghavan
    • Satish Kumar as Anandhu
    • Thalaivasal Vijay as Sathiyapriya Rayar
    • Manibharathi as Krishnan
    • Raja Krishnamoorthy as Seshu Iyer
    • T. P. Gajendran as T. Namberumal Chetty
    • Cloudia Swann as Ms. Bourne
    • Mike Parish as Doctor Charles
    • Harsh Naik as Chatterjee
    • Lizzie Bourne as Ms. Gertrude Hardy

    Production[edit]

    Casting[edit]

    \'We had very few photos of Ramanujan and his family. So, we had to purely depend on whatever information was available on the social setup of Iyengars and other castes of that period. We had to design costumes keeping in mind the three phases of his life and those surrounding him — the Kumbakonam phase, his life in Chennai and then, in London,\'

    — Shakuntala, on designing the looks for Ramanujan[6]

    Gnana Rajasekaran looked for an actor, who would physically resemble Ramanujan and signed Abhinay Vaddi for the main role, who is the grandson of veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan. Michael Lieber was signed to play Edensor Littlewood. Lieber confessed he had no knowledge of Ramanujan, when he signed the film, and went as far as to meet Béla Bollobás, who worked with Littlewood personally, for his research work. He found it difficult to speak the Tamil lines, but appreciated it later on, \'I would be lying if I said that the task of learning Tamil was not daunting at first, but once I got the hang of it I was able to appreciate what a beautiful language it is. There were many different ways of learning the Tamil lines; some used audio tapes, prompting, flash cards, or word boards. I learnt the meaning of the words and memorised chunks of dialogue.\'[1] Similarly, Kevin McGowan, who was signed for the role of G. H. Hardy, was unfamiliar with the story of Ramanujan. The film also stars Bhama, Suhasini Maniratnam, Abbas and Richard Walsh amongst others.[7][8]Sunny Joseph, best known for his high-profile Malayalam works with directors Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shaji N. Karun, was signed as cinematographer.

    Filming[edit]

    A still from the film

    The film has been shot in the five main locations of Ramanujan\'s life, Kumbakonam, Namakkal, Chennai, London and Cambridge.[9] The first two schedules were shot in India while the third was done in England, where they took the permission of Cambridge University to shoot.[10] The task to create a script in multiple languages was described by Sindhu Rajasekaran as \'quite a chore. Roxane de Rouen and I are working with Gnana Rajasekaran, the director of ‘Ramanujan,’ to make the characters speak words that make them real. No, you wouldn\'t find roadside urchins who speak in Queen\'s English here; people would speak what comes to them naturally: Tamil, English, Indian English, even Tamenglish. What a delight it is to live in this world where languages are not borders, but an element to experiment with..\'[11]

    Music[edit]

    \'My music tries to delve into the unfathomable mysterious and mystical mind of Ramanujan in its own world, which invariably found bliss in the triumph of originating newer and newer theorems. The music represents the tribulations of Ramanujan\'s life torn between hope and despair, and the loneliness that came along with the genius\'.

    — Vinayakam, on composing the music for Ramanujan[12]

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    The film\'s soundtrack and score were composed by Ramesh Vinayakam. Vinayakam called it an honour to have composed music for the film and \'an opportunity for me to travel on a new path\' and added that he was given the required creative freedom by the director and producer.[13] He said that he had to go classical for one part of the film and into European sounds for another segment.[14] No modern instruments, but old world instruments were used in order to bring the period alive,[13] while four orchestral pieces were recorded in Germany, where the composer worked with the Stuttgart-based GermanPops Orchestra that has worked on contemporary and classical styles.[14] Being a film about a mathematician, the songs were related to mathematical terms as well. Poet Vaali had written a number, \'Narayana Narayana\', which was said to \'incorporate the idea of infinity and nothingness\', while another number, written by Thirumalisai Alvar thousands of years ago, \'stresses that numbers are absolute\'.[15] One of the instrumental tracks, \'One to Zero\' was described as a \'musical metaphor\' as it was based on the numbers, with Vinayakam explaining, \'One is represented by one note, two by two notes and so on, while zero is represented by a rest.[15] After the initial exposition, at any point of time, three of these layers criss-cross each other from a distance of one beat from each other\'.[14] \'Narayana\' was sung by Vani Jayaram, who said that she was initially surprised that she was given a song whose pitch (shruthi) was less than what she usually sings in but came to know that, in the days of Ramanujan, people only sang in that pitch.[14]

    The soundtrack album of Ramanujan was released at the Suryan FM radio station in Chennai on 13 June 2014.[16] The album, which features eight tracks, including four songs and four instrumentals, was praised by critics. Indiaglitz in its review wrote, \'Ramesh Vinayakam was always there and thereabouts with his wonderful albums in the past. With this album he has struck the right chords towards his name once again. This must be the break he\'s been looking for years\'. musicaloud.com gave it a score of 9 out of 10 and wrote, \'Ramesh Vinayakam expertly draws from Carnatic and Western classical styles to produce one of the finest period film soundtracks ever\'.[17] Behindwoods.com gave it 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, \'Ramanujan enthralls the listener by transporting them to a bygone era of classical music\'.[18] Ramanujan was also named by Deccan Music[19] and Milliblog[20] as the best Tamil music album of the year 2014.

    No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
    1.\'Narayana\'VaaliKarthik Suresh, Vani Jayaram4:33
    2.\'Thuli Thuliyai\' (Version 1)Na. MuthukumarRamesh Vinayakam, Vinaya4:58
    3.\'Vinkadantha\'Thirumalisai AlvarP. Unnikrishnan3:38
    4.\'Thuli Thilyay\' (Version 2)Na. MuthukumarRamesh Vinayakam, Kaushiki Chakrabarty4:58
    5.\'Mystic Mind\' (Theme)Instrumental3:00
    6.\'Ramanujan\' (Theme)Instrumental3:16
    7.\'English Notes\' (Theme)Instrumental6:58
    8.\'One To Zero\' (Theme)Instrumental3:16

    Reception[edit]

    The film received mixed reviews from critics, who generally praised the acting but criticized the writing. The Deccan Chronicle called Ramanujan \'a brilliant piece on canvas with edifying moments and relevance to modern age\' and went on to add that it was \'not to be missed\', giving it 3.5/5 stars.[21] S. Saraswathi of Rediff wrote, \'Ramanujan is a brilliant film, a must watch\' and gave the film 4/5.[22] Gautaman Bhaskaran of The Hindustan Times gave the film 3/5 stars and wrote, \'The movie is a poignant look at the way a prodigy struggled and suffered in a penurious family, a mastermind whose mathematical wizardry invited ridicule and revulsion in far lesser mortals. Rajasekaran, who also scripted the film, takes us through a linear narrative to tell us about the intelligence of boy Ramanujan as he completely foxes his school-master with a little insight into the importance of zero, and later about his frustration when he hits a wall in his quest to sink into, and shine, with numbers\'.[23]Sify wrote, \'Making biopics is indeed very challenging and the director has been successful to a very large extent to bring out each and every character. Gnana Rajasekaran has done a well-researched biopic on Ramanujam..it is a film that is definitely worth viewing\'.[24]IANS gave it 3/5 and wrote, \'Gnana Rajasekaran certainly knows the art and succeeds narrating an inspiring tale, but his work doesn’t resonate deep within. This is so because the director merely recreates several important episodes from Ramanujan’s life on the screen while ignoring the need to build a screenplay to keep the viewers hooked\'.[25] Bharath Vijayakumar of Moviecrow rated 3/5 stars and said, \'Ramanujan is a noble effort and a fascinating insight about the life and times of this Maths Wizard who lived all his life in unison with his true love.\'.[26]

    In contrast, The New Indian Express wrote, \'The director’s persistent effort to bring on celluloid lives of eminent people is laudable. But a movie is not only about the theme, but also about how it is presented on screen. And the presentation of the life and journey of the mathematical genius is disappointing and uninspiring\'.[27]Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu wrote, \'The film runs nearly three hours and it’s puzzling why it needed to. There appears to have been no effort to streamline the events of Ramanujan’s life. The writing, too, fails to make Ramanujan interesting\', going on to add \'The great man certainly deserved a better movie\'.[28] S. Rajasekar from Cinemalead wrote \'On the whole, if you want to know about Ramanujan, go and see this Gnana Rajasekaran’s Ramanujan but if you really want to have a perfect biopic watching experience, I would say the director has missed few things in making Ramanujan as a cult classic.\' giving it 3/5.[29]Behindwoods gave it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, \'Rajasekaran should be credited for showcasing the life, tribulations and accomplishments of an unsung Math genius on the silver screen thereby making the legend be known to a wider audience\', but called it \'A sincerely made biopic, which falls short of inspiring\'.[30] M. Suganth of the Times Of India gave 2.5/5 and wrote, \'For a film that is about a man with astounding talent, the filmmaking is largely unimaginative. The staging is somewhat old-fashioned (read dated), the pacing staid and the film often slips into the kind of melodrama that you nowadays find in TV serials.\'.[31]Daily India gave 2.5/5 and stated, \'In overall, Ramanujan is a cleanly made and it\'s a very rare kind of movie in biopics genre. Editing and cinematography is worth praising. Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actor Gemini Ganesan done a good job and made justice to their roles.\'.[32]Indiaglitz gave 2.25/5 and wrote, \'An honest attempt to drive through the life of a genius gets stuck at lot of bumpers.\'.[33]

    Awards[edit]

    Ramanujan won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film of 2013.[34]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

    1. ^ ab\'Therein lies the genius\'. The Hindu. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
    2. ^KrishnamacharI, Suganthy. \'Travails of a genius\'. The Hindu. The Hindu. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
    3. ^\'Life of Srinivasa Ramanujan\'. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
    4. ^\'Komalathammal, Srinivasa Ramanujan\'s mother\'. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
    5. ^\'Janaki, Srinivasa Ramanujan\'s wife\'. The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
    6. ^\'Designers research for period look in Tamil films\'. The Times of India. 19 September 2013.
    7. ^\'\'Camphor Cinema\' presents their first film \'Ramanujan\'\'. Boxofficeindia. Archived from the original on 20 August 2013. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
    8. ^Harshikaa Udasi (30 November 2013). \'Faces and facts\'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
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    11. ^\'CAMPHOR CINEMA\'S INDO – BRITISH COLLABORATION\'. This Week Guwahati. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
    12. ^\'Ramanujan audio launched\'. The Times of India. 14 June 2014.
    13. ^ abIANS (14 June 2014). \'\'Ramanujan\' music represents his life\'s tribulations: composer\'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
    14. ^ abcdSrinivasa Ramanujam. \'Of music and mathematics\'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
    15. ^ ab\'Ramanujan to feature songs on numbers - The Times of India\'. Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
    16. ^Features, Express. \'Ramanujan\'s Audio Hits the Airwaves\'. The New Indian Express. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
    17. ^Vipin (20 June 2014). \'Ramanujam: Music Review (Tamil Movie Soundtrack) Ramesh Vinayakam\'. Music Aloud. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
    18. ^\'Ramanujan (aka) Ramanujan songs review\'. Behindwoods.com. 13 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
    19. ^2014 Best of Tamil Music Deccan Music - 12 December 2014
    20. ^Milliblog Annual Music Round Up Milliblog - 13 December 2014
    21. ^Anupama Subramanian (2014-07-11) Ramanujan movie review - Deccan Chronicle Retrieved 2014-07-12
    22. ^Ramanujan movie review - Rediff Retrieved 2014-07-12
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    25. ^Ramanujan movie review - IANS Retrieved 2014-07-13
    26. ^Ramanujan review - Moviecrow Retrieved 2014-07-13
    27. ^Ramanujan movie review - The New Indian Express Retrieved 2014-07-13
    28. ^movie review - The Hindu Retrieved 2014-07-13
    29. ^Ramanujan movie review - Cinemalead Retrieved 2014-07-12
    30. ^Ramanujan movie review - Behindwoods Retrieved 2014-07-12
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    33. ^Ramanujan movie review - Indiaglitz Retrieved 2014-07-12
    34. ^\'2009-14 Tamil Nadu film awards announced\'. Deccan Chronicle. 14 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2017.

    External links[edit]

    • Ramanujan on IMDb
    Retrieved from \'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ramanujan_(film)&oldid=949012034\'

    SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM PART 1

    CHILDHOOD

    • Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu).
    • His father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar, originally from Thanjavur district, worked as a clerk in a sari shop.His mother, Komalatammal, was a housewife and also sang at a local temple.
    • They lived in a small traditional home on Sarangapani Sannidhi Street in the town of Kumbakonam. The family home is now a museum.
    • On 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.After his maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram,Ramanujan and his mother moved back to Kumbakonam and he was enrolled in the Kangayan Primary School.

    LIFE BEGINS

    \'Srinivasa\'
    • He did not like school in Madras, and tried to avoid attending. His family enlisted a local constable to make sure the boy attended school.
    • Since Ramanujan’s father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of the boy as a child. He had a close relationship with her. From her, he learned about tradition and puranas.
    • He learned to sing religious songs, to attend pujas at the temple, and to maintain particular eating habits – all of which are part of Brahmin culture.
    • Just before turning 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, Tamil, geography and arithmetic with the best scores in the district.That year, Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School, where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time.

    MATHEMATICS

    • By 14, he was receiving merit certificates and academic awards that continued throughout his school career.He completed mathematical exams in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with geometry and infinite series.
    • In 1903, when he was 16, Ramanujan obtained from a friend a library copy of A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, G. S. Carr’s collection of 5,000 theorems.
    • Ramanujan reportedly studied the contents of the book in detail. The book is generally acknowledged as a key element in awakening his genius.
    • When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics.

    TROUBLE YEARS

    • It was in 1910, after a meeting between the 23-year-old Ramanujan and the founder of the Indian Mathematical Society , Ramaswamy Aiyer, also known as Professor Ramaswami, that Ramanujan started to get recognition within the mathematics circles of Madras.
    • On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki a girl whom his mother had selected for him a year earlier.It was not unusual for marriages to be arranged with girls.Ramanujan’s father did not participate in the marriage ceremony.
    • After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at a friend’s house while he went from door to door around Madras looking for a clerical position. To make money, he tutored students at Presidency College.

    CAREER

    • Ramanujan met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, who had founded the Indian Mathematical Society.Wishing for a job at the revenue department where Aiyer worked.
    • In early 1912, he got a temporary job in the Madras Accountant General’s office, with a salary of 20 rupees per month. He lasted only a few weeks. Toward the end of that assignment, he applied for a position under the Chief Accountant of the Madras Port Trust.

    ENGLAND

    • In 1913, he began writing letters to British mathematicians. Out of these, G. H. Hardy was to be the one who would believe in Ramanujan’s skills.
    • Hardy asked a colleague, J. E. Littlewood, to take a look at the papers. Littlewood was amazed by Ramanujan’s genius. After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were “certainly the most remarkable I have received” and said that Ramanujan was “a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and power”.
    • On 8 February 1913, Hardy wrote Ramanujan a letter expressing his interest in his work. Hardy contacted the Indian Office to plan for Ramanujan’s trip to Cambridge.
    • Hardy’s correspondence with Ramanujan soured after Ramanujan refused to come to England. Hardy enlisted a colleague lecturing in Madras, E. H. Neville, to mentor and bring Ramanujan to England.
    • Apparently, Ramanujan’s mother had a vivid dream in which the family goddess, the deity of Namagiri, commanded her “to stand no longer between her son and the fulfilment of his life’s purpose”.Ramanujan traveled to England by ship, leaving his wife to stay with his parents in India.

    SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM PART 2

    LIFE IN ENGLAND

    • Ramanujan departed from Madras aboard the S.S. Nevasa on 17 March 1914.When he disembarked in London on 14 April, Neville was waiting for him with a car.
    • Four days later, Neville took him to his house on Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Ramanujan immediately began his work with Littlewood and Hardy.
    • Hardy and Littlewood began to look at Ramanujan’s notebooks. Hardy had already received 120 theorems from Ramanujan in the first two letters, but there were many more results and theorems in the notebooks.
    • Hardy saw that some were wrong, others had already been discovered, and the rest were new breakthroughs.
    • Ramanujan left a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood. Ramanujan spent nearly five years in Cambridge collaborating with Hardy and Littlewood, and published part of his findings there.
    • Their collaboration was a clash of different cultures, beliefs, and working styles.
    • Hardy was an atheist and an apostle of proof and mathematical rigour, whereas Ramanujan was a deeply religious man who relied very strongly on his intuition and insights.
    • While in England, Hardy tried his best to fill the gaps in Ramanujan’s education and to mentor him in the need for formal proofs to support his results, without hindering his inspiration – a conflict that neither found easy.
    • Ramanujan was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers, the first part of which was published as a paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
    • On 6 December 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the second Indian admitted to the Royal Society.
    • At age 31 Ramanujan was one of the youngest Fellows in the history of the Royal Society. On 13 October 1918, he was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

    ILLNESS AND DEATH

    • Throughout his life, Ramanujan was plagued by health problems. His health worsened in England; possibly he was also less resilient due to the difficulty of keeping to the strict dietary requirements of his religion in England and wartime rationing during 1914–1918.
    • He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency at the time.In 1919 he returned to Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, and soon thereafter, in 1920, died at the age of 32.

    THE EXTERNAL SUPPORT

    • Ramanujan has been described as a person of a somewhat shy and quiet disposition, a dignified man with pleasant manners.He lived a simple life at Cambridge.
    • He credited his acumen to his family goddess, Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work .Afterward he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes.He often said, “An equation for me has no meaning unless it represents a thought of God.“

    MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

    • Ramanujam made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions .He began to work on his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series.
    • He worked on divergent series. He sent 120 theorems on imply divisibility properties of the partition function.
    • Partition of whole numbers: Partition of whole numbers is another similar problem that captured ramanujan attention. Subsequently ramanujan developed a formula for the partition of any number, which can be made to yield the required result by a series of successive approximation

    MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

    • Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their structure, distribution and special forms.
    • Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is the sum of two squares.
    • Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation:Ramanujam was shown how to solve cubic equations and he went on to find his own method to solve the quadratic.
    • Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and investigated relations between integrals and series
    • Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their structure, distribution and special forms.
    • Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is the sum of two squares.
    • Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation:Ramanujam was shown how to solve cubic equations and he went on to find his own method to solve the quadratic.
    • Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and investigated relations between integrals and series


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  • Ramanujan died in Chicago, on July 13, 1993 as result of adverse reaction to anesthesia during preparation for surgery. Contributions to South Asian Studies A. Ramanujan\'s theoretical and aesthetic contributions span several disciplinary areas.

    Ramanujan
    Directed byGnana Rajasekaran
    Produced bySrivatsan Nadathur
    Sushant Desai
    Sharanyan Nadathur
    Sindhu Rajasekaran
    Written byGnana Rajasekaran
    StarringAbhinay Vaddi
    Abbas
    Suhasini Maniratnam
    Kevin McGowan
    Bhama
    Michael Lieber
    Music byRamesh Vinayakam
    CinematographySunny Joseph
    Edited byB. Lenin
    • 11 July 2014
    153 minutes
    CountryIndia
    United Kingdom
    LanguageTamil
    English

    Ramanujan is a 2014 biographical film based on the life of renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The film, written and directed by Gnana Rajasekaran, was shot back to back in the Tamil and English languages.[1]Ramanujan was produced by the independent Indian production house Camphor Cinema. The cast consists of Indian and British film, stage and screen personalities. It marks the film debut of Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actors Gemini Ganesan and Savitri, as the protagonist.

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    Plot[edit]

    Set in the early 1900s, the film traces the life of the prodigious math genius Srinivasa Ramanujan from the time he was a young Tamil Brahmin to his years in England, where he attended Cambridge University during World War I. The film follows his relationships with his mother Komalatammal, his wife Janaki, and his collaborator Professor G. H. Hardy. The film also showcases how Indian society viewed a mathematician of such great stature.[2]

    Cast[edit]

    • Abhinay Vaddi as Srinivasa Ramanujan[3]
    • Suhasini Maniratnam as Komalatammal ( Srinivasa Ramanujan\'s Mother[4] )
    • Bhama as Janaki ( Srinivasa Ramanujan\'s Wife[5] )
    • Kevin McGowan as G. H. Hardy
    • Abbas as Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
    • Anmol as Young Srinivasa Ramanujan
    • Michael Lieber as John Edensor Littlewood
    • Richard Walsh as Francis Spring
    • Sharath Babu as Diwan Bahadur R. Ramachandra Rao I. C. S.
    • Radha Ravi as Prof. Singaravelu Mudaliar
    • Madhan Bob as Prof. Krishna Shastri
    • Y. G. Mahendran as S. Narayana Iyer
    • Manobala as Krishna Rao
    • Nizhalgal Ravi as Srinivasa Raghavan
    • Satish Kumar as Anandhu
    • Thalaivasal Vijay as Sathiyapriya Rayar
    • Manibharathi as Krishnan
    • Raja Krishnamoorthy as Seshu Iyer
    • T. P. Gajendran as T. Namberumal Chetty
    • Cloudia Swann as Ms. Bourne
    • Mike Parish as Doctor Charles
    • Harsh Naik as Chatterjee
    • Lizzie Bourne as Ms. Gertrude Hardy

    Production[edit]

    Casting[edit]

    \'We had very few photos of Ramanujan and his family. So, we had to purely depend on whatever information was available on the social setup of Iyengars and other castes of that period. We had to design costumes keeping in mind the three phases of his life and those surrounding him — the Kumbakonam phase, his life in Chennai and then, in London,\'

    — Shakuntala, on designing the looks for Ramanujan[6]

    Gnana Rajasekaran looked for an actor, who would physically resemble Ramanujan and signed Abhinay Vaddi for the main role, who is the grandson of veteran Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan. Michael Lieber was signed to play Edensor Littlewood. Lieber confessed he had no knowledge of Ramanujan, when he signed the film, and went as far as to meet Béla Bollobás, who worked with Littlewood personally, for his research work. He found it difficult to speak the Tamil lines, but appreciated it later on, \'I would be lying if I said that the task of learning Tamil was not daunting at first, but once I got the hang of it I was able to appreciate what a beautiful language it is. There were many different ways of learning the Tamil lines; some used audio tapes, prompting, flash cards, or word boards. I learnt the meaning of the words and memorised chunks of dialogue.\'[1] Similarly, Kevin McGowan, who was signed for the role of G. H. Hardy, was unfamiliar with the story of Ramanujan. The film also stars Bhama, Suhasini Maniratnam, Abbas and Richard Walsh amongst others.[7][8]Sunny Joseph, best known for his high-profile Malayalam works with directors Adoor Gopalakrishnan and Shaji N. Karun, was signed as cinematographer.

    Filming[edit]

    A still from the film

    The film has been shot in the five main locations of Ramanujan\'s life, Kumbakonam, Namakkal, Chennai, London and Cambridge.[9] The first two schedules were shot in India while the third was done in England, where they took the permission of Cambridge University to shoot.[10] The task to create a script in multiple languages was described by Sindhu Rajasekaran as \'quite a chore. Roxane de Rouen and I are working with Gnana Rajasekaran, the director of ‘Ramanujan,’ to make the characters speak words that make them real. No, you wouldn\'t find roadside urchins who speak in Queen\'s English here; people would speak what comes to them naturally: Tamil, English, Indian English, even Tamenglish. What a delight it is to live in this world where languages are not borders, but an element to experiment with..\'[11]

    Music[edit]

    \'My music tries to delve into the unfathomable mysterious and mystical mind of Ramanujan in its own world, which invariably found bliss in the triumph of originating newer and newer theorems. The music represents the tribulations of Ramanujan\'s life torn between hope and despair, and the loneliness that came along with the genius\'.

    — Vinayakam, on composing the music for Ramanujan[12]

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    The film\'s soundtrack and score were composed by Ramesh Vinayakam. Vinayakam called it an honour to have composed music for the film and \'an opportunity for me to travel on a new path\' and added that he was given the required creative freedom by the director and producer.[13] He said that he had to go classical for one part of the film and into European sounds for another segment.[14] No modern instruments, but old world instruments were used in order to bring the period alive,[13] while four orchestral pieces were recorded in Germany, where the composer worked with the Stuttgart-based GermanPops Orchestra that has worked on contemporary and classical styles.[14] Being a film about a mathematician, the songs were related to mathematical terms as well. Poet Vaali had written a number, \'Narayana Narayana\', which was said to \'incorporate the idea of infinity and nothingness\', while another number, written by Thirumalisai Alvar thousands of years ago, \'stresses that numbers are absolute\'.[15] One of the instrumental tracks, \'One to Zero\' was described as a \'musical metaphor\' as it was based on the numbers, with Vinayakam explaining, \'One is represented by one note, two by two notes and so on, while zero is represented by a rest.[15] After the initial exposition, at any point of time, three of these layers criss-cross each other from a distance of one beat from each other\'.[14] \'Narayana\' was sung by Vani Jayaram, who said that she was initially surprised that she was given a song whose pitch (shruthi) was less than what she usually sings in but came to know that, in the days of Ramanujan, people only sang in that pitch.[14]

    The soundtrack album of Ramanujan was released at the Suryan FM radio station in Chennai on 13 June 2014.[16] The album, which features eight tracks, including four songs and four instrumentals, was praised by critics. Indiaglitz in its review wrote, \'Ramesh Vinayakam was always there and thereabouts with his wonderful albums in the past. With this album he has struck the right chords towards his name once again. This must be the break he\'s been looking for years\'. musicaloud.com gave it a score of 9 out of 10 and wrote, \'Ramesh Vinayakam expertly draws from Carnatic and Western classical styles to produce one of the finest period film soundtracks ever\'.[17] Behindwoods.com gave it 3 stars out of 5 and wrote, \'Ramanujan enthralls the listener by transporting them to a bygone era of classical music\'.[18] Ramanujan was also named by Deccan Music[19] and Milliblog[20] as the best Tamil music album of the year 2014.

    No.TitleLyricsSinger(s)Length
    1.\'Narayana\'VaaliKarthik Suresh, Vani Jayaram4:33
    2.\'Thuli Thuliyai\' (Version 1)Na. MuthukumarRamesh Vinayakam, Vinaya4:58
    3.\'Vinkadantha\'Thirumalisai AlvarP. Unnikrishnan3:38
    4.\'Thuli Thilyay\' (Version 2)Na. MuthukumarRamesh Vinayakam, Kaushiki Chakrabarty4:58
    5.\'Mystic Mind\' (Theme)Instrumental3:00
    6.\'Ramanujan\' (Theme)Instrumental3:16
    7.\'English Notes\' (Theme)Instrumental6:58
    8.\'One To Zero\' (Theme)Instrumental3:16

    Reception[edit]

    The film received mixed reviews from critics, who generally praised the acting but criticized the writing. The Deccan Chronicle called Ramanujan \'a brilliant piece on canvas with edifying moments and relevance to modern age\' and went on to add that it was \'not to be missed\', giving it 3.5/5 stars.[21] S. Saraswathi of Rediff wrote, \'Ramanujan is a brilliant film, a must watch\' and gave the film 4/5.[22] Gautaman Bhaskaran of The Hindustan Times gave the film 3/5 stars and wrote, \'The movie is a poignant look at the way a prodigy struggled and suffered in a penurious family, a mastermind whose mathematical wizardry invited ridicule and revulsion in far lesser mortals. Rajasekaran, who also scripted the film, takes us through a linear narrative to tell us about the intelligence of boy Ramanujan as he completely foxes his school-master with a little insight into the importance of zero, and later about his frustration when he hits a wall in his quest to sink into, and shine, with numbers\'.[23]Sify wrote, \'Making biopics is indeed very challenging and the director has been successful to a very large extent to bring out each and every character. Gnana Rajasekaran has done a well-researched biopic on Ramanujam..it is a film that is definitely worth viewing\'.[24]IANS gave it 3/5 and wrote, \'Gnana Rajasekaran certainly knows the art and succeeds narrating an inspiring tale, but his work doesn’t resonate deep within. This is so because the director merely recreates several important episodes from Ramanujan’s life on the screen while ignoring the need to build a screenplay to keep the viewers hooked\'.[25] Bharath Vijayakumar of Moviecrow rated 3/5 stars and said, \'Ramanujan is a noble effort and a fascinating insight about the life and times of this Maths Wizard who lived all his life in unison with his true love.\'.[26]

    In contrast, The New Indian Express wrote, \'The director’s persistent effort to bring on celluloid lives of eminent people is laudable. But a movie is not only about the theme, but also about how it is presented on screen. And the presentation of the life and journey of the mathematical genius is disappointing and uninspiring\'.[27]Baradwaj Rangan of The Hindu wrote, \'The film runs nearly three hours and it’s puzzling why it needed to. There appears to have been no effort to streamline the events of Ramanujan’s life. The writing, too, fails to make Ramanujan interesting\', going on to add \'The great man certainly deserved a better movie\'.[28] S. Rajasekar from Cinemalead wrote \'On the whole, if you want to know about Ramanujan, go and see this Gnana Rajasekaran’s Ramanujan but if you really want to have a perfect biopic watching experience, I would say the director has missed few things in making Ramanujan as a cult classic.\' giving it 3/5.[29]Behindwoods gave it 2.5/5 stars and wrote, \'Rajasekaran should be credited for showcasing the life, tribulations and accomplishments of an unsung Math genius on the silver screen thereby making the legend be known to a wider audience\', but called it \'A sincerely made biopic, which falls short of inspiring\'.[30] M. Suganth of the Times Of India gave 2.5/5 and wrote, \'For a film that is about a man with astounding talent, the filmmaking is largely unimaginative. The staging is somewhat old-fashioned (read dated), the pacing staid and the film often slips into the kind of melodrama that you nowadays find in TV serials.\'.[31]Daily India gave 2.5/5 and stated, \'In overall, Ramanujan is a cleanly made and it\'s a very rare kind of movie in biopics genre. Editing and cinematography is worth praising. Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of veteran Tamil film actor Gemini Ganesan done a good job and made justice to their roles.\'.[32]Indiaglitz gave 2.25/5 and wrote, \'An honest attempt to drive through the life of a genius gets stuck at lot of bumpers.\'.[33]

    Awards[edit]

    Ramanujan won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Film of 2013.[34]

    See also[edit]

    References[edit]

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    13. ^ abIANS (14 June 2014). \'\'Ramanujan\' music represents his life\'s tribulations: composer\'. The Hindu. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
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    External links[edit]

    • Ramanujan on IMDb
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    SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM PART 1

    CHILDHOOD

    • Ramanujan was born on 22 December 1887 into a Tamil Brahmin Iyengar family in Erode, Madras Presidency (now Tamil Nadu).
    • His father, K. Srinivasa Iyengar, originally from Thanjavur district, worked as a clerk in a sari shop.His mother, Komalatammal, was a housewife and also sang at a local temple.
    • They lived in a small traditional home on Sarangapani Sannidhi Street in the town of Kumbakonam. The family home is now a museum.
    • On 1 October 1892, Ramanujan was enrolled at the local school.After his maternal grandfather lost his job as a court official in Kanchipuram,Ramanujan and his mother moved back to Kumbakonam and he was enrolled in the Kangayan Primary School.

    LIFE BEGINS

    \'Srinivasa\'
    • He did not like school in Madras, and tried to avoid attending. His family enlisted a local constable to make sure the boy attended school.
    • Since Ramanujan’s father was at work most of the day, his mother took care of the boy as a child. He had a close relationship with her. From her, he learned about tradition and puranas.
    • He learned to sing religious songs, to attend pujas at the temple, and to maintain particular eating habits – all of which are part of Brahmin culture.
    • Just before turning 10, in November 1897, he passed his primary examinations in English, Tamil, geography and arithmetic with the best scores in the district.That year, Ramanujan entered Town Higher Secondary School, where he encountered formal mathematics for the first time.

    MATHEMATICS

    • By 14, he was receiving merit certificates and academic awards that continued throughout his school career.He completed mathematical exams in half the allotted time, and showed a familiarity with geometry and infinite series.
    • In 1903, when he was 16, Ramanujan obtained from a friend a library copy of A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics, G. S. Carr’s collection of 5,000 theorems.
    • Ramanujan reportedly studied the contents of the book in detail. The book is generally acknowledged as a key element in awakening his genius.
    • When he graduated from Town Higher Secondary School in 1904, Ramanujan was awarded the K. Ranganatha Rao prize for mathematics.

    TROUBLE YEARS

    • It was in 1910, after a meeting between the 23-year-old Ramanujan and the founder of the Indian Mathematical Society , Ramaswamy Aiyer, also known as Professor Ramaswami, that Ramanujan started to get recognition within the mathematics circles of Madras.
    • On 14 July 1909, Ramanujan married Janaki a girl whom his mother had selected for him a year earlier.It was not unusual for marriages to be arranged with girls.Ramanujan’s father did not participate in the marriage ceremony.
    • After his successful surgery, Ramanujan searched for a job. He stayed at a friend’s house while he went from door to door around Madras looking for a clerical position. To make money, he tutored students at Presidency College.

    CAREER

    • Ramanujan met deputy collector V. Ramaswamy Aiyer, who had founded the Indian Mathematical Society.Wishing for a job at the revenue department where Aiyer worked.
    • In early 1912, he got a temporary job in the Madras Accountant General’s office, with a salary of 20 rupees per month. He lasted only a few weeks. Toward the end of that assignment, he applied for a position under the Chief Accountant of the Madras Port Trust.

    ENGLAND

    • In 1913, he began writing letters to British mathematicians. Out of these, G. H. Hardy was to be the one who would believe in Ramanujan’s skills.
    • Hardy asked a colleague, J. E. Littlewood, to take a look at the papers. Littlewood was amazed by Ramanujan’s genius. After discussing the papers with Littlewood, Hardy concluded that the letters were “certainly the most remarkable I have received” and said that Ramanujan was “a mathematician of the highest quality, a man of altogether exceptional originality and power”.
    • On 8 February 1913, Hardy wrote Ramanujan a letter expressing his interest in his work. Hardy contacted the Indian Office to plan for Ramanujan’s trip to Cambridge.
    • Hardy’s correspondence with Ramanujan soured after Ramanujan refused to come to England. Hardy enlisted a colleague lecturing in Madras, E. H. Neville, to mentor and bring Ramanujan to England.
    • Apparently, Ramanujan’s mother had a vivid dream in which the family goddess, the deity of Namagiri, commanded her “to stand no longer between her son and the fulfilment of his life’s purpose”.Ramanujan traveled to England by ship, leaving his wife to stay with his parents in India.

    SRINIVASA RAMANUJAM PART 2

    LIFE IN ENGLAND

    • Ramanujan departed from Madras aboard the S.S. Nevasa on 17 March 1914.When he disembarked in London on 14 April, Neville was waiting for him with a car.
    • Four days later, Neville took him to his house on Chesterton Road in Cambridge. Ramanujan immediately began his work with Littlewood and Hardy.
    • Hardy and Littlewood began to look at Ramanujan’s notebooks. Hardy had already received 120 theorems from Ramanujan in the first two letters, but there were many more results and theorems in the notebooks.
    • Hardy saw that some were wrong, others had already been discovered, and the rest were new breakthroughs.
    • Ramanujan left a deep impression on Hardy and Littlewood. Ramanujan spent nearly five years in Cambridge collaborating with Hardy and Littlewood, and published part of his findings there.
    • Their collaboration was a clash of different cultures, beliefs, and working styles.
    • Hardy was an atheist and an apostle of proof and mathematical rigour, whereas Ramanujan was a deeply religious man who relied very strongly on his intuition and insights.
    • While in England, Hardy tried his best to fill the gaps in Ramanujan’s education and to mentor him in the need for formal proofs to support his results, without hindering his inspiration – a conflict that neither found easy.
    • Ramanujan was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree by research (this degree was later renamed PhD) in March 1916 for his work on highly composite numbers, the first part of which was published as a paper in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society.
    • On 6 December 1917, he was elected to the London Mathematical Society. In 1918 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, the second Indian admitted to the Royal Society.
    • At age 31 Ramanujan was one of the youngest Fellows in the history of the Royal Society. On 13 October 1918, he was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

    ILLNESS AND DEATH

    • Throughout his life, Ramanujan was plagued by health problems. His health worsened in England; possibly he was also less resilient due to the difficulty of keeping to the strict dietary requirements of his religion in England and wartime rationing during 1914–1918.
    • He was diagnosed with tuberculosis and a severe vitamin deficiency at the time.In 1919 he returned to Kumbakonam, Madras Presidency, and soon thereafter, in 1920, died at the age of 32.

    THE EXTERNAL SUPPORT

    • Ramanujan has been described as a person of a somewhat shy and quiet disposition, a dignified man with pleasant manners.He lived a simple life at Cambridge.
    • He credited his acumen to his family goddess, Mahalakshmi of Namakkal. He looked to her for inspiration in his work .Afterward he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes.He often said, “An equation for me has no meaning unless it represents a thought of God.“

    MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

    • Ramanujam made substantial contributions to the analytical theory of numbers and worked on elliptic functions, continued fractions .He began to work on his own on mathematics summing geometric and arithmetic series.
    • He worked on divergent series. He sent 120 theorems on imply divisibility properties of the partition function.
    • Partition of whole numbers: Partition of whole numbers is another similar problem that captured ramanujan attention. Subsequently ramanujan developed a formula for the partition of any number, which can be made to yield the required result by a series of successive approximation

    MATHEMATICAL GENIUS

    • Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their structure, distribution and special forms.
    • Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is the sum of two squares.
    • Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation:Ramanujam was shown how to solve cubic equations and he went on to find his own method to solve the quadratic.
    • Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and investigated relations between integrals and series
    • Ramanujan studied the highly composite numbers also which are recognized as the opposite of prime numbers. He studies their structure, distribution and special forms.
    • Fermat Theorem: He also did considerable work on the unresolved Fermat theorem, which states that a prime number of the form 4m+1 is the sum of two squares.
    • Cubic Equations and Quadratic Equation:Ramanujam was shown how to solve cubic equations and he went on to find his own method to solve the quadratic.
    • Hypo geometric series: He worked hypo geometric series, and investigated relations between integrals and series


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