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Going by the fact that few film units get to shoot at the Camdridge University in London, the cast and the crew of the Indo-British film Ramanujan recently had the rare honour to shoot some important sequences of the film on the campus of the University.
Set in early 1900?s British India and England, Ramanujan tracks the journey of the mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan hailing from Kumbakonam where he had his peers to Cambridge where Prof. G. H. Hardy facilitated his research in mathematics.
Ramanujan was at Trinity for five years, where his quintessential contribution to mathematics got him elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Fellow of The Royal Society, London.
With an aim to portray the genius mathematician’s real life incidents, the film aims to acquaint the international audience along with the life and times of the mathematician and intends to demonstrate the humanism that existed between two culturally different people during imperialistic times. The film is being simultaneously shot in English and Tamil.
Avers Sindhu Rajasekaran, producer and assistant scriptwriter, “To make a period film set in British India where Indian characters speak in English that comes naturally to them is quite a chore. Roxane de Rouen and I are working with director Gnana Rajasekaran to make the characters speak words that make them feel 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 a mixture of Tamil and English (Tamenglish).”
While two schedules of the film were shot in India, the third in England: where a reversal of languages and cultures and translations conquered.
The film stars Abhinay Vaddi, the grandson of Gemini Ganesan in the role of Ramanujan and established British stage and screen actor Kevin McGowanwho plays the important role of Prof. G.H. Hardy.
It also features Michael Lieber, Richard Walsh, Cloudia Swann and Elizabeth Bourne along with Indian actors Bhama, Suhasini Maniratnam (wife of the renowned director Mani Ratnam), Abbas, Nizhalgal Ravi, Delhi Ganesh, Y. G. Mahendran and Sarath Babu.
The film is directed by Gnana Rajasekaran and produced by Camphor Cinema, an independent film production company.
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