Shakuntala Devi, starring Vidya Balan in and as the "human computer", has released today on Amazon Prime. SheThePeople had the opportunity of speaking to Shakuntala Devi’s daughter Anupama Banerji , who was known to have a contentious relationship with her mother; director Anu Menon called her Devi's "Achilles' heel" in her interview with us. This complex mother-daughter relationship has been portrayed in the film, with Sanya Malhotra essaying Anupama 's role. Devi returned to India in the mid-1960s, and she married Paritosh Banerji , [29] an officer of the Indian Administrative Service from Kolkata. [30] They divorced in 1979, after her husband's homosexuality was allegedly revealed. [29][30] Their daughter Anupama Banerji claimed that Devi lied about her husband being gay to promote her book on homosexuals because her credibility on the subject matter was questioned. [31][32] In 1980, she contested the Lok Sabha elections as an independent ... We knew Shakuntala Devi’s ex-husband was gay till the film told us otherwise. The mathematician and author of The World of Homosexuals lied about it. We spoke to her daughter Anupama Banerji and ... Anupama Banerji , math wizard Shakuntala Devi’s daughter, spoke about Vidya Balan’s film on her mother.
