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
DVD Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen Enhanced (16:9) DVD
- English Subtitles
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
- DVD Text
- Jacket Picture
- NTSC - All Regions
- Interactive Menus of Songs & Scenes for Easy Access
Plot
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.