Dev Patel, who shot to fame with Danny Boyle's Slumdog
Millionaire, will be next seen playing the lead role in The Man Who Knew
Infinity, a movie based on the life of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan
and though Patel is being praised for his performance in the movie, not many
might know that Dev actually is bad at math!
Approving the same, Dev confessed that while shooting the movie,
the makers had got a mathematician named Ken Ono on the sets to break down
complex mathematical formulas for Dev. The actor further quipped that despite
the help of Ono, he did not understand most of what was being explained to him
and that there was a quite a lot of acting required so as to cover up his
mathematical inabilities. For those who do not know this, Ken Ono is a
Japanese-American mathematician who specializes in number theory, especially in
integer partitions, modular forms, and the fields of interest similar to that
of Srinivasa Ramanujan.
On his part, Ono tells, “I was involved because they wanted
to get their mathematics right and before I knew it, I was on the sets in
England, helping out with so many different things. It was of course difficult
to explain how to be a mathematician to someone who is not a mathematician. My
favourite scene in the film is the scene where Dev Patel, who plays Ramanujan,
completes a complex mathematical formlua on the blackboard and one can see that
he has done it in real time. My challenge was to select a formula that he could
remember easily and complete it in the sequence.”
An Edward R. Pressman/Animus Films production in association
with Cayenne Pepper Productions, The Man Who Knew Infinity, starring Dev Patel,
Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise,Stephen Fry, Toby Jones and Arundhati Naag, has been
written and directed by Matthew Brown and is slated to release, in English and
Tamil, on April 29, 2016.
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