Ramanujan said, “You wanted to know how I get my ideas. God speaks to me”
A biopic based on a story of a young man in India who receives mathematical visions and sketches them down on the temple floor. He has this drive to channel and shares the visions with the right people. Almost forcefully.
There is a saying by Erykah Badu, “I think people who vibrate at the same frequency vibrate toward each other. they call it, in science, sympathetic vibrations."
That has brought him to sail from India to Cambridge and to Dr. Hardy. This is where the collision between faith and mathematics happens.
Even though it is hard at first, Dr. Hardy is being unbiased and sees what Ramanujan could bring into the field of mathematics. He then showed and him the right way up to the Fellowship.
Also, despite Dr. Hardy is an atheist, being professional, made him push aside his personal judgment. Near the end when Dr. Hardy is presenting in front of the Fellowship he says,
“We do not invent these formulae, they already exist. And waiting for the brightest of minds like Ramanujan ever to the divine and prove.”
After making that argument that it is Godly, he says,
“So in the end I have been forced to consider, who are we to question Ramanujan, let alone God.”
Ramanujan vibrates in the same frequency as the brightest minds in Cambridge which eventually brings him there. He has also vibrated in the same frequency as God in the temple for the divine knowledge to be channeled through him. In the end, Ramanujan completed his purpose but eventually succumbed to tuberculosis, which started when he got to Cambridge.
Ramanujan can be said to have been a vessel for divine messages (like biblical prophets). He has lived his (Jungian) bliss.
Have us?
This film can be placed in the same row as The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, and the Beautiful Mind. But when it comes to the subject of God is in the numbers, Hamid (2018) also hit the nails right in the head. A story about a boy who converses with God after getting His phone number, which in the end sets him on his future life path.
Both are currently playing on Netflix.
"I believe that God speaks to us constantly. And He speaks, not just with the Words of the holy books, but also through the things that surround us; things which we see, smell, hear and touch." ~Yasmin Ahmad (7 January 1958 – 25 July 2009)
