Mumbai, 2nd May, 2016: Close to 95 years after his tragic death, the biopic on Srinivasa Ramanujan; “THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY” has found a huge connect with audiences across India.
The film debuted with close to 125 screens in English and Tamil, and is playing across all major towns in India.Backed by almost universal critical acclaim, and rated “must watch” the movie has been performing extremely well. The box-office collections of the film grew day-on-day with Saturday being twice of Friday and Sunday being full houses across the country.
Most shows have found the audiences spontaneously clapping and cheering India’s greatest Mathematical Mind.
Alok Tandon, CEO Inox Leisure Limited had this to say, “The film has delivered terrific numbers over the weekend, and the audiences are loving the film and the performances.”
In many cinemas across the country there have requests to increase shows and open in newer markets. Devang Sampat, CEO Cinepolis added “Audiences in India, are enjoying biopics, and like Neerja, they are loving, true stories of Indians. We will be opening the film in newer markets, in the coming week”
The gross box office collections of the film for the weekend have been over 2.1 crore and the movie is well on its way to being among the highest grossing films of this genre.
“This is an inspirational film and it will play in cinemas for quite a few weeks, the audience response in our cinemas has been fantastic” says CEO Sanjay Dalia of Carnival Cinemas.
Distributed in India, by PVR Pictures, the film stars Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones and Stephen Fry, the film is directed by Matt Brown and is produced by Edward R. Pressman/Animus Films production in association with Cayenne Pepper Productions, Jim Young, Joe Thomas, Matthew Brown, Sofia Sondervan and Jon Katz. Executive producers include, Swati Bhise, Joseph N. Cohen, Gary Ellis, Pamela Godfrey, Phil Hunt, Mark Montgomery, Compton Ross, Manraj S. Sekhon, Sahil Shah, Tristine Skyler, Min-Li-Tan, Masaaki Tanaka and Richard Toussaint.
Deepak Sharma COO of PVR Pictures adds “We are very proud to be associated with a film like, “The Man Who Knew Infinity”. The response to the film has been very encouraging and more than just the collections, audiences, are loving this true story of an Indian Genius”.
