Dev Patel had a tough time playing mathematical genius S. Ramanujan due to his mathematical inabilities!

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.

Hollywood beauty Devika Bhise desires to work with Aamir and Rajkumar Hirani!

Hollywood actress of Indian origin, Devika Bhise, who’s getting excellent reviews for her power-packed act in forthcoming biographical drama, The Man Who Knew Infinity, which is based on the life of mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan, tells that she wouldn't mind doing a Bollywood movie, provided she gets the right script.

The actress, who plays Ramanujan’s wife Janaki in the film, is quite intrigued with Bollywood and wouldn’t mind doing a Hindi movie. When asked, if she would want to work in a Bollywood film, Devika Bhise told, “Bollywood is such an interesting place and the roles and the movies that are being created, have definitely changed over the last couple of years and are continuing to change so, I think, if I get the right project, I would definitely want to do that. As of now, I haven’t read any script that I have loved.”

When asked to name a Bollywood actor she would want to work with, the actress told, “There are a lot of great Bollywood actors but I think one of the problems is that these actors accept every role that they get and as a result, they do roles after roles, instead of immersing themselves into their characters. Aamir Khan, I think is an amazing actor and he is choosy about his roles. Everything that I have watched him in, he has done an excellent job and therefore, I would like to work with him. Hrithik Roshan too is a great actor and he is also very handsome (laughs).”

When quizzed about the Indian directors she aspires to work with, Bhise told, “I would love to work with Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra.”