[Type the document title] Coverage Dossier The following report contains an overview of the coverage received through the various promotional efforts, organized over the course of 4 days in Goa and Mumbai, for the upcoming movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. Report Created by: Weber Shandwick India 25 November, 2015 Preface Over the course of four action-packed days, replete with star-studded press conferences and focused media meet-and-greets, glitzy get-togethers and exclusive events with an eclectic gathering of stalwarts from industry, art, film & theatre and sports, The Man Who Knew Infinity has become a familiar talking point among Indian film buffs and critics. The promotional events for the film kicked off with a press conference in Goa on the eve of the International Film Festival of India, which saw members of the press from print, TV and radio in attendance to hear from the talented cast and crew. At the IFFI press conference which was organized on 20 November, more than 30 journalists were present from all over the country at the Kala Academy Black Box and actively interacted with the cast of the film, which was the inaugural film at the festival. The opening film saw a full house at the 900-seater of Kala Academy and was well received and appreciated. To give the media, and finally, the Indian audiences a deeper & closer look at the various nuances of the film, interviews were strategically set-up for each member of the film team including actors - Devika Bhise, Dev Patel and Toby Jones, Director - Matthew Brown and Producer - Ed Pressman. In all more than 20 media interacted with team. Through these interviews, which took place over the course of the next few days, at IFFI, supplemented through timely press notes, features and reviews of the film have appeared across key national as well local publications including print, online and broadcast. Radio Mirchi also featured a mother-daughter radio show with Swati and Devika Bhise. The after-party hosted at the palatial residence of the Bhises, saw renowned Indian film personalities as well as prominent personalities from Goa. Sir Garfield Sobers whose legendary contributions to cricket reverberate Ramanujam’s genius also endorsed the film at IFFI. He was the guest of honour at the next event in Mumbai as well, which celebrated genius in the esteemed company of leading corporate honchos, yesteryear cricketing stars, celebrated thespians, social influencers and columnists. These events further stirred the captured the imagination of Indian media and audiences alike. Stories about Sir Garfield Sobers visiting India and further endorsing the film at the city events have generated buzz, sustaining interest in the movie. The subsequent features from the events have already appeared across key mainline publications, amplified online and are still trickling in. The report that follows chronicles the coverage, segregated as per the various media initiatives. Print clips, online stories and screen grabs of broadcast coverage have been included. Please note that the most recent clips appear first. Celebrating Genius with Sir Gary Sobers, Mumbai, 22 November November 24, 2015 ‘Players will realize that Test cricket is ultimate: Sobers’ Times of India (Print) November 24, 2015 ‘Players will realize that Test cricket is ultimate: Sobers’ Times of India (Online) “I don’t know much about genius. They keep telling me that I am. I don’t know what I have done, how I have become a genius. All I know is whatever I have achieved is through the ability I was probably born with. And ability alone doesn’t work. You have to work hard to make it work. You don’t have to work as much as the other person who does not have the same natural ability,’’ said Sir Garry Sobers, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, during a private function to celebrate the film The Man Who Knew Infinity , a biopic on the celebrated Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Eight months away from turning 80, Sir Garry said with a sharp and clear mind: “I think that is where I have probably capitalised because as a young boy growing up, I used to have many spectators. You think that when I made the world record score of 365, I had spectators? No. When I was 13 and 14, I had a lot more spectators. “I think geniuses are born. I don’t think they are made. They have to recognise what they have and they have to work hard to achieve whatever they want to achieve. Nothing is given to you on a platter. “I have known a lot of players I have played with. They had the ability, but did not recognise that they not only had the ability, but they were geniuses. And they thought everything will fall into place. No. You have to work hard. Once you have done that, you will achieve.’’ The Barbadian said it’s very difficult to make an assessment of things that has changed cricket. “Of course, there’s got to be changes. I think some of the changes are for the better. I believe that the players who are playing the game should be able to accept what they think is right and what is wrong. “Like in the West Indies, it is very difficult to criticise the players who want to play the IPL because most of them come from very humble backgrounds. And, if they find an opportunity where they can better themselves, then you can’t blame them for that. “I think the changes have been good but the players have to learn to know how to accept and never to forget their countries because Test cricket will always be the utmost and they should always strive to be better at that. Once you are good in that situation, you will be able to produce results. If you work hard, you will be able to perform and you will find that your country will also benefit. “Players these days are retiring before their time to retire because their whole idea is to go and play in the IPL. I can’t blame them. They pay well and one doesn’t know how long they will be in the game. “When you see an opportunity where you can help yourself, and then by all means do that. But look at the game in its right perspective. And I believe that in time to come, a lot of players will recognise that Test cricket is still the No. 1 cricket in the world and Twenty20 is entertainment.’’ LINK: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-sports/players-will-realise-that-test-cricket-is- ultimate-sobers/article7910036.ece November 24, 2015 ‘Hard work only route to success: Sobers’ Times of India (Print) November 24, 2015 ‘Hard work only route to success: Sobers’ Times of India (Online) There are only two kinds of sportsmen and women in the opinion of Garfield Sobers. Those born with a natural ability to achieve something special and those who have to put in a lot more effort to achieve the same result because they lacked the natural ability. But, in either case, says Sobers, hard work is the only route to success. "People call me a genius. I don't know much about geniuses. But I do believe that what I achieved was not just because of the ability that I was born with but also because I worked hard," said the Barbadian, addressing a select gathering of ex- cricketers and connoisseurs in Mumbai on Sunday. Ability alone, he says, will never work because one's got to work hard to make it work. "And I think that is where I think I capitalized. I worked hard," he said, conversation drifting from his career in cricket to new-found love golf, movies and more. Sobers has been touring India this week as a personal guest of his good friend and entrepreneur Anand Bhise, who's daughter stars in the upcoming Hollywood movie 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' - on the life and times of math wizard Srinivas Ramanujan. "If you were an Indian or West Indian in England, they always felt their cricketers were better although they knew you were as good as them. It's just that you had to endure a lot more to prove yourself," he said, drawing a parallel between Ramanujan's struggle in the United Kingdom and the challenges he faced before the west started to believe in his genius and the West Indies of the 50s and the 60s faced on their travel to the United Kingdom, their sole aim to earn the respect of their opposition. Sobers went down the memory lane on a pleasant evening by the Arabian Sea, recounting days as a young cricketer who was in awe of his elder brother Jerry. "When I tell people that I was not as good a batsman as my brother Jerry, people don't believe it. He was better than Seymour Nurse and those who've seen Seymour will know what I'm saying," he said, speaking to a crowd that had ex-cricketers Madhav Apte, Ajit Wadekar, Dilip Doshi, Farokh Engineer, Dilip Vengsarkar and others in the audience. Vengsarkar gifts Sobers Mumbai tie Former India batsman and Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) vice-president Dilip Vengsarkar presented the legendary Garfield Sobers with a MCA tie on Sunday, making him aware of Mumbai's contribution to the Indian domestic circuit the last 40 years just the way Barbados had retained its aura in Caribbean cricket years ago. "While presenting the Mumbai tie, I told him that it's the only team in the world that has won the national championship a record 40 times. Farokh Engineer was also quick to point out to Sobers 'what Barbados cricket was to the West Indies, Mumbai has been to India'," Vengsarkar said. LINK: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/top-stories/Hard-work-only-route-to-success-Garfield- Sobers/articleshow/49902424.cms November 24, 2015 ‘Golf is the best sport I’ve ever played: Sobers’ DNA (Print) November 24, 2015 ‘Golf is the best sport I've ever played: Garry Sobers’ DNA (Online) It was quite an evening on Sunday. A memorable one that sent some of the yesteryear greats in Indian cricket down memory lane. When legendary West Indies all-rounder Garfield Sobers was in the city, his Indian contemporaries including the captain of that 1970-71 successful tour of the West Indies, Ajit Wadekar, wicketkeeper Farokh Engineer, Kenia Jayantilal, former Test cricketers Nari Contractor, Madhav Apte, Karsan Ghavri, Dilip Doshi and Dilip Vengsarkar cannot be far behind. “Captain, captain, how are you?” Engineer called out, trying to catch Sobers's attention as the West Indian great was exchanging pleasantries with another known face at a south Mumbai hotel on Sunday. And, when Wadekar greeted his rival captain, Sobers could not hide his joy. “Ajit Wadekar, how are you? Good to see you,” said Sobers before giving him a hug. Sobers was in the city to support 'The Man Who Knew Infinity', a biopic on mathematics genius Ramanujan. Genius is the middle name of Sobers. The legend from Barbados, still regarded as the finest all-rounder the game has ever seen, said “geniuses are born and not made”. “I don't know much about genius. They keep telling me that I am one. I don't know what I have done, how I have become a genius,” the 79-year-old said in a conversation with Devika Bhise, who plays the wife of Ramanujan in the movie. “All I know is whatever I have achieved, I have achieved through the ability I was probably born with. I believe geniuses are born with ability. And, ability alone doesn't work. You have to work hard to make it work. I think geniuses are born. I don't think they are made. They have to recognise what they have and they have to work hard to achieve whatever they want to achieve. Nothing is given to you on a platter. I have known a lot of players I have played with. They had the ability but did not recognise that they not only had the ability but they were geniuses. And, they thought everything will fall into place. No. You have to work hard. Once you have done that, you will achieve.” 'NOT FOR RECORDS' Sobers's records speak for himself, and the genius that he was. He played in 93 Tests between 1954 and 1974, and had a dream statistics of 8.032 runs with 26 hundreds and took 235 wickets besides holding 109 catches. He held the record for the highest individual Test score – 365 not out – before it was broken by Brian Lara. “My moment in the game of cricket is not records. I did not want to do things to be the greatest. My goals were built around my team. What the team wanted me to do, I did. I could bowl in three different ways, could field anywhere, could bat anywhere. If they needed an opening bat, I'd go and open. If they needed someone to open the bowling, I'd open the bowling though I started as a left-arm spinner. I did all those things,” he said. “Records, to me, is not the way to go. If they come in the way of helping your side to be successful, then I am all for it. People set records and break them. To me that is not part of the game. That is trying to make you proud and forget the team. Throughout my career, whether I played for the Police, Barbados, Nottinghamshire, South Australia, West Indies, you will find I always performed when the team was down. Not when it was up. I was a team man. And whatever I achieved, I achieved through that. And, I think a lot of people did recognise that. Whatever genius I had, I worked hard to make it that way.” 'BROTHER MORE TALENTED' Hard work, Sobers did. But he insisted that his elder brother Gerry was more talented than he was but was unlucky not to play for the West Indies. He narrated: “As a young boy, I believed in sport. My whole life was built around sports. In Barbados, I must have played seven different sports for the island. I was not an academic. I believed sports was very very important. And that was the way I was brought up. “My father died when I was five. My mother had six of us. My eldest brother (George) was 11 and he had to leave school early and go to work to help the family. Therefore, we were not exposed to the kind of education that the boys of today and the people of today are. You had to play in those days. When you have six kids, and when mother is not working, it was very difficult to find money to pay. “I recognised that sport was the thing that I wanted to do, as did all my brothers. As a matter of fact, when I tell people that I was not as good a batsman as my brother Gerry, they still don't believe it. He was very good. He was even better than Seymour Nurse. And, you have seen Seymour Nurse because Gerry and Seymour Nurse were on par and they always chose Nurse because he was an opening batsman. But Gerry came at the wrong time. “I was very fortunate. I came at the right time. I came when it was a little bit easier to get into the West Indies team. Or even a Barbados team because in those days Barbados was so strong that they could have taken the world on. The 3Ws (Worrell, Walcott and Weekes) were all from Barbados. We had Roy Marshall, Denis Atkinson, Conrad Hunte, they were all top class. I was fortunate and I worked hard at the game because a lot of people used to admire me. And, they let me know. I have heard people talking about 'that little boy, he has got a lot of ability'. I worked very hard to achieve what I achieved.” Sobers also gave thumbs up to Twenty20 cricket, and the Indian Premier League, which features a lot of West Indies cricketers. In fact, West Indians are a regular in the Twenty20 leagues the world over.