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Originally posted by: Maraka_Musso89
Cool to see nice reviews by viewers. Keep them coming 👍🏼
I'll experience the movie vicariously through you all until I can see it lol.Thanks!!!
Its subject may seem an unlikely choice for epic movie treatment, but "Padman," inspired by the true story of activist Arunachalam Muruganantham's mission to bring affordable sanitary pads to the female masses of India, proves quite the entertaining, daresay absorbing, movie.
How the title character, a mechanically-inclined everyman renamed here Lakshi Chauhan (the charming Akshay Kumar), bucked a culture that stigmatized menstruation, fought for women's health, surmounted pariah status and emerged as a kind of superhero, is vibrantly tracked by writer-director R. Balki, who, in typical Bollywood fashion, peppers the action with several enjoyable song and dance numbers.
The central conflict involves the relationship between Lakshi and his traditional wife Gayatri (Radhika Apte), who's so mortified by her husband's obsessive interest in the creation and use of sanitary napkins (instead of the rags most Indian women were using) that she chooses to leave him.
Lakshi then takes off in search of the most efficient and economical ways to make and distribute the product he knows will improve and even save women's lives. En route, he meets a business management student (Sonam Kapoor) who aids him on a journey that will culminate in a stirring appearance at the United Nations.
A few plot contrivances aside, "Padman" is a well-told and performed film that compellingly fills its lengthy running time with hope, resolve and exuberance.
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Not rated
In Hindi and English with English subtitles
Running time: 2 hours, 20 minutes
Playing: In limited release
The story of an Indian metalworker who devised a low-cost method of producing sanitary pads makes a compelling biopic
This good-natured, big-hearted film from India puts a romantic topspin on a true story. But it's an engrossing and important subject which was raised by a man who challenged patriarchal taboos with a candour and determination that many men all over the progressive world might shrink from even now.
Twenty years ago, Arunachalam Muruganantham was a metalworker who thought it lamentable that his wife Shanthi and all the women in his community had to rely on dirty rags when they got their periods because sanitary pads were absurdly overpriced. So he did something about it, developing a low-cost machine for making the pads and evangelising for their use all across the country, instituting a revolution in feminine hygiene, ending the toxic masculine culture of silence and disapproval and introducing a vernacular culture of social entrepreneurship.
Akshay Kumar plays the hero (renamed Lakshmi) and Radhika Apte is his troubled wife (renamed Gayatri). Their performances are likable and heartfelt.
Originally posted by: shilpa_akki
glad to read some of member's reviews...gradually people are liking this niche movie...
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