Padman Review: Real Hero's Journey

In India menstration is the biggest taboo, people are so hesitate to discuss about it. There is one movie who based on this subject that is Padman. Padman is the movie that hard to criticise. Padman is the story of  Arunachalam Muruganantham. Muruganantham is a fascinating man who made the sanitary pads at his workshop.

Padman poster

In Padman movie Akshay Kumar played Muruganantham's character. Radhika Apte seen his wife's character and Sonam Kapoor who came to help Akshay Kumar in his struggling period.

Soon after his wedding to Gayatri(Radhika), he notices how she is ostracised from the house during menstruation. She uses a dirty rug to clean the menstrual blood which makes Lakshmi apprehensive of the health hazards it could cause to his wife. Gayatri is averse to the idea of using a sanitary pad because of its high cost, which prompts her husband to come up with a low cost sanitary napkin of his own. His efforts backfire as his single minded agenda to invent a pad only makes the entire village dub him as a madman. Thus starts his journey to evolve from a madman to a Padman.

The cinematic liberty gains immense significance in this film because Muruganatham has given his consent (as per a discliamer preceding the film) to the makers to alter certain facts of his success story.

Padman movie review

Director R Balki has handled the taboo subject of periods and menstruation very well and made it a worth-watching commercial film. The dialogues are worth a whistle — especially the climactic speech.

Shot on location in Madhya Pradesh, Indore, New York and Delhi, the film sails smoothly and won't bore you even for a minute. The second half of the film is powerful.

A must-watch film. Don't hesitate or feel awkward when taking your kids for this one. They need to know. Period.

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