JULY 27- Indian origin-Hollywood actor Dev Patel is all set to essay the role of Indian mathematics genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in an untitled biopic based on his biography The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by American author Robert Kanigel.
The film is produced by prominent Hollywood producers Edward R. Pressman and Prashita Chaudhary of Cinemorphic Entertainment Company, who bought the rights to make a film on the novel, from Kanigal, around seven years back.
Dev Patel, who shot to fame with Dany Boyle’s multi-Academy Award winning film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ and ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’, also features in HBO’s television show ‘The Newsroom’, in which he plays a geeky reporter.
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