Goal of making a film is to boost the educational system. Agree or disagree.

Through which, Homer living, begged his bread. These lines, indicating the harsh treatment the world reserves for men of genius and its celebration later of their triumph, could well have been written for mathematician Srinivasa

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t

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in the direction of

to

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, where he studied, claims him as her son. Residents of Triplicane take pride in the fact that

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resided there. Yet

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’s

life

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, whether in

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or Madras, was fraught with difficulties. Poverty (while a student in Pachaiappa’s college, he could not afford to buy a cap that cost less than 50 p

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give pleasure to or be pleasing to

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, dejection (he ran away from home in 1905), lack of proper guidance, and i

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the inability

of others to comprehend the magnitude of his genius - any

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of these could have totally smothered

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’s brilliance. In the

book

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on

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by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan, father of library science in India, N. Raghunathan,

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’s classmate in school and later a professor of mathematics, said that none of the “mathematical higher ups in India correctly gauged the extent and nature of

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’s capacity.” Would it be possible to make a commercially successful

film

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on

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? S

rivatsan

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Nadathur, Sharanyan Nadathur, Sindhu

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and Sushanth Desai, founders of Camphor Cinema, think so, and their

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production is a

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on

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. Director Gnana

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, whom they approached, had three scripts ready, but the

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on

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was their unanimous choice. The

film

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is being shot simultaneously in Tamil and English. Sindhu and Roxanne Derouen from the U.K. a

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assisting

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with the English script. The

house

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in which

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lived in

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has been bought by SASTRA University and is being preserved as a museum. The crew is just back from a shoot in

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when I meet them, and they’ve had many interesting experiences. “Visiting the

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where

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lived has become a sort of pilgrimage for students,” says Sindhu. “SASTRA University has installed a bust of

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in the

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, and we had to cover

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during the shoot. A student disappointed at finding it covered, took the blessings of the actor playing the role of

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elaborates. S

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says that he was moved b

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with

the help they received from the residents of

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. “A postman said, ‘I will not accept payment. I am proud to belong to the same town as

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’.” Director

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has to his credit two popular biopics,

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on Bharatiar and the other on Periyar. There are a lot of dramatic elements in the lives of Bharatiar and Periyar, but the world of pure mathematics is far removed from most people. Romancing numbers Can mathematics be the point of orientation of a

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? It is always lonely at the top, and

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was at the top of the heap. So how does

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make a successful

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on

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who was romancing numbers? “It is certainly not easy. But it is not impossible,” says

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. Why

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? “I want people to think about how we as a society view a genius in our midst.” Is his

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based on any particular

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? “No, but of all the books on

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that I read, I found Ragami’s

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the most interesting. It has

life

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, and it’s only

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books that can help a script writer conceive a

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. And

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’s wife, Janaki Ammal, had observed that Ragami’s

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painted a vivid picture of

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in

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’s family.” Details about Janaki’s

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of

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’s family are sketchy. So will there be romantic moments in the

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? “Actually, the lack of information appealed to my creativity, and I enjoyed imagining conversations between

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and Janaki. These were among the most challenging portions of the script.” A

bhinay,

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the grandson of Gemini Ganesan and Savitri, is the hero of the

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. “I chose Abhinay, because his eyes have the piercing look that

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’s eyes are supposed to have had,” points out

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who is being tutored to speak Iyengar Tamil, says, “The director suggested that I should not read any

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on

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, but just gave me some notes and gave me the freedom to fix the character.” P. Krishnamurthy, who has won four National Awards, is the Art director. He says, “I had to modify the setting in

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’s

house

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in

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, because it is no longer a living

house

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. Every small detail mattered, even the m

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which every Brahmin

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had in those days.” While a genius like

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may appear once in a century, or perhaps not even that, what would happen to a modern day

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?

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was refused a scholarship in the

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college, because he failed in English composition, and things have not changed today. We still have a system that would try to fit a genius into a p

rocrustean

of or relating to the mythical giant Procrustes or the mode of torture practiced by him

Procrustean

bed of conformity. In his

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, ‘The Conquest of Happiness’, Bertrand Russell writes, “There is a comfortable doctrine that genius will always make its way… It is like the theory that murder will out. Obviously, all the murders we know of have been discovered, but who knows how many there may be which have never been heard of? In like manner, all the men of genius that we have heard of have triumphed over adverse circumstances, but

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no reason for supposing that there were not innumerable others, who succumbed in youth.”

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became internationally renowned, albeit after many reverses, but who knows how many will, if we continue to provide the most discouraging education system? If after seeing

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film

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, people begin to think about the changes needed in our education system,

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may be said to have achieved his goal in making

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film

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.