Q. Playing Ramanujan must be quite a challenge, considering the age in which he existed and his background, which is completely different from yours.
A. I spent about a month with my coach Raghuveer Joshi working on the accent and the pitch. We couldn't refer to anything as there is no found footage of the great man, so there was no way I could mimic his voice. What I tried imitating is the resilience that he had, trying to capture the essence of his personality. I never knew this man existed, which is a travesty. When the script landed in my lap, I was blown away. The script has been floating around for 10 years and I am lucky to have finally gotten the role. It is a big challenge because people are quick to judge a book by its cover. It isn't a documentary; it's a movie and we are dramatising certain aspects.

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