South Asian Film Club: The Man Who Knew Infinity
Join us for this screening of The Man Who Knew Infinity part of Manchester Museum’s 2025 South Asian Film Club, a series of film showings inspired by the South Asia Gallery.
South Asian Film Club returns for 2025 for a series of film showings inspired by Manchester Museum’s South Asia Gallery. From modern day British-Asian stories to historical biopics, join us to be entertained and hear from guest speakers on the connections between these films and the award-winning community co-curated South Asia Gallery.
Starring Dev Patel and Jeremy Irons, The Man Who Knew Infinity is a biopic about Srinivasa Ramanujan, often regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. In 1913 Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) was a 25-year-old shipping clerk and self-taught genius, who failed out of college due to his near-obsessive, solitary study of mathematics. Determined to pursue his passion despite rejection and derision from his peers, Ramanujan writes a letter to G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge. Hardy recognises the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan’s raw talent and despite the scepticism of his colleagues, undertakes bringing him to Cambridge so that his theories can be explored.
This season of South Asian Film Club has been programmed by South Asia Gallery co-curator Nazma Noor and the film will be introduced by a guest speaker to be announced.
The film runtime is 108 minutes.