Srinivasa Ramanujam (1887-1920)
Another Brit filmmaker, another movie on a great Indian. British director Stephen Fry and Dev Benegal are collaborating to make a movie on the math genius, Srinivasa Ramanujam.
From BBC.com:
British director Stephen Fry and India's Dev Benegal are to make a film about an Indian mathematician whose ideas underpin the digital revolution.
Srinavasa Ramanujan, a poor college dropout who died aged 33, ended up at Cambridge in the early 1900s and was acknowledged as a mathematical genius.
The joint production will look at his relationship with Cambridge don GH Hardy who "discovered" him.
The film will begin shooting next year in Tamil Nadu state and Cambridge.
Now that they are finally making a movie I wish they would at least spell his name correct, its Ramanujam not Ramanujan. I guess they're confusing the name with the name Ramajuan, which is the character played by the delectable Navi Rawat in the hit show Numb3rs, who also (co-incidentally) happens to potray a math genius in that show.
The reel life Ramajuan, or did they try to spell Ramanujam?
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