Padman is inspired from a true story and is getting a great response from box office.Much as I count myself as a liberal mind, it was an awkward thought imagining to watch scenes and dialogues of women’s menstrual problems with the teens.
I still managed to watch it alone, clutching on to another excuse but that is another story.
After the makers of Pad Man agreed to postpone the release, actress Radhika Apte was asked at a promotional event about her personal experiences related to the awkwardness that I felt.
Unusually, she had supportive doctor parents who actually celebrated her reach a major stage of puberty by throwing a party. Still, she said, she could not get out of her awkwardness until she decided to just shed inhibitions and loudly called out for a packet of sanitary pads at a pharmacy shop in public.
Pad Man is a larger-than-life reel adaptation of the real-life story of Arunachalam Murgunantham, known as India’s Menstruation Man. It has called out to the cinema-going public to shed inhibitions about a simple call of nature in public where many are still finding complex ways to deal with it.
R Balki has always did films breaking stereotypes from his debut with Cheeni Kum to Paa, Shamitabh and Ki & Ka before this. Pad Man is the only one based on a true story, unlike others, though as Balki chronicles Muruganantham’s journey to make affordable sanitary napkins for women in his village to setting up a small-scale industry.
And the movie goes on.
I guarantee that you will not feel lagged through out the movie.
Verdict: Good
My rating: 3.7/5