
Victoria & Abdul(2017)
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.


“What does it take to prove the impossible?”
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Dev Patel
Srinivasa Ramanujan

Jeremy Irons
G. H. Hardy

Toby Jones
Littlewood

Devika Bhise
Janaki

Stephen Fry
Sir Francis Spring

Kevin McNally
Major MacMahon

Jeremy Northam
Bertrand Russell

Anthony Calf
Howard

Pádraic Delaney
Beglan

Shazad Latif
Chandra Mahalanobis
The Man Who Knew Infinity is a drama, history film released in 2016 exploring themes of based on novel or book, england, mathematics, mathematician, mathematical theorem, biography. Directed by Matt Brown, it stars Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones. Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
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