Padman

Feb 9 2018 PG-13 2h 20m
Comedy, Drama

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.

Plot

Biography of Tamil Nadu activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, whose mission was to provide sanitary napkins to poor women of rural areas who used rags or leaves because sanitary napkins were rare. After he did not get fruitful results from his family and a medical college he approached, he decided to try it himself by filling a football bladder with goat's blood and roaming around with it for a day to check the absorption rate of the sanitary napkins he made.

Written by

R Balki, Swanand Kirkire

Directed by

R Balki

Cast

Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, Sonam Kapoor

Crew

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Production Countries

India

Production Companies

Sony Pictures Films India, Columbia Pictures, Hari Om Entertainment, KriArj Entertainment

Languages

Awards

4 wins & 8 nominations total

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Scores
# of Votes
32,442
Average Rating
7.8 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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