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Pad Man is an upcoming 2018 Indian biographical film written and directed by R. Balki, featuring Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte in lead roles and cameo appearance by Amitabh Bachchan, which is inspired from the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a social activist from Tamil Nadu.

FILM IS BASED ON

The film will be based on “The Sanitary Man of Sacred Land”, a short story from Twinkle Khanna’s book, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, which is inspired from the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who revolutionized the concept of menstrual hygiene in rural India by creating a low-cost sanitary napkins machine. revolves around the story of Arunachalam who invented low-cost sanitary pads.

BIOGRAPHY OF ACTIVIST

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.

AWARENESS FILM

Pad Man was envisioned to an be awareness film without focusing too much at the commercial aspect. The producers’ main agenda was to reach out to a wide audience to create awareness and eradicate the superstitions surrounding sanitary pads that’s prevalent and practiced in India till today.

As with Kumar’s previous film, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, they hoped to educate the masses, both women and men, about menstrual hygiene and to stop labelling it as stigma or taboo in the society.Furthermore, it was plea towards politicians to drive their attention towards sanitary pads and making it mandatory across institutions.

MUSIC

The music of the film has been composed by Amit Trivedi while the lyrics have been written by Kausar Munir. The first track of the film “Aaj Se Teri” which is sung by Arijit Singh was released on 20 December 2017. The second track of the film titled as “The Pad Man Song” which is sung by Mika Singh was released on 25 December 2017 on the occasion of Christmas. The music of the film was officially released by Zee Music Company on 26 December 2017.

All lyrics written by Kausar Munir; all music composed by Amit Trivedi.

RELEASE

The film was initially planned to be released on 13 April 2018, but was later moved to 26 January 2018. In India, the film will be released on Republic Day and will be shown across 2,800 screens. Regarding the possible box office clash with Aiyaary which releases on the same day, Kumar denounced the tension saying that it was unlikely since both films have different subjects and themes.

Being a social issue based film, the producer’s are planning to show the film in various schools in smaller towns and cities with the aid of various ministries and the government.

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