In Popular Culture
- A film, based on the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel, is being made by Edward Pressman and Matthew Brown with R. Madhavan playing Ramanujan.
- Another international feature film on Ramanujan's life was announced in 2006 as due to begin shooting in 2007. It was to be shot in Tamil Nadu state and Cambridge and be produced by an Indo-British collaboration and co-directed by Stephen Fry and Dev Benegal. A play, First Class Man by Alter Ego Productions, was based on David Freeman's First Class Man. The play is centred around Ramanujan and his complex and dysfunctional relationship with Hardy. On 16 October 2011, it was announced that Roger Spottiswoode, best known for his James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies, is working on the film version, starring actor Siddharth. Like the book and play it is also titled The First Class Man; the film's scripting has been completed and shooting is being planned from 2012.
- A Disappearing Number is a recent British stage production by the company Complicite that explores the relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan.
- The novel The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt explores in fiction the events following Ramanujan's letter to Hardy.
- On 22 March 1988, the PBS Series Nova aired a documentary about Ramanujan, "The Man Who Loved Numbers" (Season 15, Episode 9).
- Ramanujan is mentioned in the Hollywood Blockbuster Good Will Hunting starring Matt Damon a film based on an orphan genius living in the rough part of South Boston.
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