Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
Movie : Pad Man Year : 2018 Banner : Columbia Pictures, Hope Productions, KriArj Entertainment, Mrs Funnybones Movies Cast : Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor, Radhika Apte, Riva Bubber, Urmila Mahanta, Amitabh Bachchan Music : Amit Trivedi Lyrics : Kausar Munir Story : R. Balki, Swanand Kirkire Direction : R. Balki Producer : Twinkle Khanna, SPE Films India, KriArj Entertainment, Cape of Good Films, Hope Productions Genre : Biographical Drama, Comedy Runtime : 140 min Release Date : 9 February 2018
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Biography on Tamil Nadu activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, whose mission was to provide sanitary napkin's to poor women of rural areas. Who would use rag cloths or leaves during periods where use of sanitary napkins was rare. After he did not get fruitful results from his family and a medical college he approached, he decided to try it himself by making a uterus out of football bladder and filling goat's blood in it. He would roam around the whole day with the bladder, the aim was to check the absorption rate of the sanitary napkins made by him.