R Balki: Akshay is a lot like Arunachalam Muruganantham. He doesn't give himself much credit
7 years, 1 month ago

R Balki: Akshay is a lot like Arunachalam Muruganantham. He doesn't give himself much credit

India Today  

In an interview with India Today, filmmaker R Balki talks about meeting Arunachalam Muruganantham, the real Pad Man, working with Akshay Kumar and how his fifth film, his first biopic, can raise awareness about menstrual hygiene and be an inspiring story. I had seen Arunachalam Muruganantham's TED Talk and other videos before Twinkle and Akshay asked me to do it. What's the biggest lesson that people can take from Arunachalam Muruganantham after seeing Pad Man? ALSO WATCH | Didn't make Pad Man to earn profits, says Akshay Kumar

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5 Years of Akshay Kumar's Pad Man: A film that changed mindsets about that time of the month
2 years, 1 month ago

5 Years of Akshay Kumar's Pad Man: A film that changed mindsets about that time of the month

Firstpost  

Pad Man has two heroes. It was also a victory for Arunachalam Muruganantham on whose life the film Pad Man was based, and who has dedicated his life to female hygiene and its subversion for economic reasons. It’s the way Akshay Kumar plays Laxmikant, a man driven to insane bouts of audacity by the passion to diminish the pain that …

Akshay Kumar's Padman clocks 4 years: 5 reasons you must watch R Balki's film again
3 years, 1 month ago

Akshay Kumar's Padman clocks 4 years: 5 reasons you must watch R Balki's film again

India TV News  

R Balki's films have always given fans food for thought long after leaving the movie halls. With his realistic and raw form of storytelling in Pad Man, the filmmaker gave us some serious food for thought and sparked conversations across Indian households. - Arunachalam Muruganantham's story: Inspired by the social entrepreneur's real life story, Pad Man brings alive Muruganantham's struggles …

Twinkle Khanna on National Award for Pad Man: Start with good intentions and good luck follows. Period.
5 years, 7 months ago

Twinkle Khanna on National Award for Pad Man: Start with good intentions and good luck follows. Period.

India Today  

Twinkle Khanna's first production, Pad Man, won Best Film on Social Issues at National Film Awards announced on Friday. A number of people dissuaded me from making a movie about pads and today Mrs Funnybones Movies’ first production wins the National Award:) Sometimes you start with good intentions and good luck follows.Period. #Padman https://t.co/s1xwoiiJfn Twinkle Khanna August 9, 2019 Akshay …

Saari duniya se kaho, Copy That! Akshay Kumar gushes over Pad Man National Award win
5 years, 7 months ago

Saari duniya se kaho, Copy That! Akshay Kumar gushes over Pad Man National Award win

India Today  

Akshay Kumar is on Cloud 9. His film Pad Man bagged the National Award for Best Film On Social Issues. #Padman https://t.co/s1xwoiiJfn Twinkle Khanna August 9, 2019 Akshay Kumar quoted Twinkle's tweet and wrote, "Yes and the next call was to me, half anxious.half excited to confirm if we’d actually won the #NationalAward for Best Film On Social Issues for …

Pad Man: How Bollywood is challenging period stigma in India
6 years, 8 months ago

Pad Man: How Bollywood is challenging period stigma in India

The Independent  

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Akshay Kumar thanks GST Council for tax exemption on sanitary napkins
6 years, 8 months ago

Akshay Kumar thanks GST Council for tax exemption on sanitary napkins

India TV News  

National Award winning Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, whose film "Pad Man" tried to create awareness on menstrual hygiene, has thanked the GST Council for making sanitary napkins Goods and Services Tax free. Earlier this year, Akshay narrated the story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, who introduced the low-cost sanitary napkins in India, in "Pad Man". The film was produced by Akshay Kumar's …

Akshay Kumar: Every husband, father, brother and son should understand the need of menstrual hygiene
6 years, 10 months ago

Akshay Kumar: Every husband, father, brother and son should understand the need of menstrual hygiene

India TV News  

Actor Akshay Kumar says men should understand the need of menstrual hygiene for the women in their lives. Akshay also featured in Pad Man, which tells a story of social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham's journey to make affordable sanitary napkins. It is a story of how one man came up with a revolutionary method of producing cost effective sanitary napkins and …

Akshay Kumar installs sanitary pad vending machines at Mumbai's Central Bus Station
7 years, 1 month ago

Akshay Kumar installs sanitary pad vending machines at Mumbai's Central Bus Station

India Today  

National Award-winning actor Akshay Kumar has installed a sanitary pad vending machine in Mumbai Central ST Bus Depot and hopes to put several across India. Akshay, whose latest release, Pad Man, delves with menstrual issue and hygiene, especially in rural India, took to Twitter on Thirsday to share a photograph of him along with Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray inaugurating …

Pad Man success is proof that Indian audience is opening up to taboo topics like menstruation
7 years, 1 month ago

Pad Man success is proof that Indian audience is opening up to taboo topics like menstruation

India Today  

For many generations, menstruation has been a topic that has been talked about only in hush-hush voices. And who could have ever thought that a taboo topic like menstruation would make it to the big screen; let alone Bollywood's Khiladi Kumar playing the lead! Within four days of its release, Pad Man has already earned Rs 45 crore, and is …

Akshay Kumar's Pad Man banned in Pakistan? Twitter erupts in anger
7 years, 1 month ago

Akshay Kumar's Pad Man banned in Pakistan? Twitter erupts in anger

India Today  

As reports began doing the rounds that Pad Man will not be released in Pakistan, citizens of the country took to Twitter to express their disappointment. The Federal Censor Board and the Punjab Film Censor Board have refused to certify the Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte-starrer, saying that it is based on a "taboo subject". https://t.co/S7PUfBV9ak Gharidah Farooqi …

Pad Man Movie Review: Akshay Kumar breathes as Muruganantham in this fabulous film
7 years, 1 month ago

Pad Man Movie Review: Akshay Kumar breathes as Muruganantham in this fabulous film

India Today  

Pad Man, the biopic of India's Menstrual Man Arunachalam Muruganantham, starring Akshay Kumar in the lead role, is the big Bollywood release today. Pad Man, the biopic of Arunachalam Muruganantham, has Akshay Kumar playing Lakshmikant Chauhan, the mad genius who left his village after being ostracised, just so that his wife could wear the more hygienic sanitary pads instead of …

Patriot to feminist, Pad Man Akshay Kumar is exactly what 2018 India wants
7 years, 1 month ago

Patriot to feminist, Pad Man Akshay Kumar is exactly what 2018 India wants

India Today  

When Akshay Kumar was given the Best Actor National Award for Rustom last year, many sniggered, laughed at and ridiculed the jury for their selection. From Baby to Pad Man, it has been a three-year journey for Akshay Kumar. Pad Man has already been facing criticism for Akshay Kumar moving Arunachalam Muruganantham's place of work from Tamil Nadu to Madhya …

Why Akshay Kumar and Sonam Kapoor's Pad Man Challenge is problematic
7 years, 1 month ago

Why Akshay Kumar and Sonam Kapoor's Pad Man Challenge is problematic

India Today  

Akshay Kumar and Sonam Kapoor-starrer Pad Man releases this week, and before the film hits the theatres, its promotional campaign is going viral. If you are on Twitter or Instagram, you cannot have missed the gazillion pictures of celebrities posing with a sanitary pad as part of the Pad Man challenge. Surely, the majority of the people who need to …

Ouch! Mallika Dua takes a sharp dig at Akshay Kumar's Pad Man challenge
7 years, 1 month ago

Ouch! Mallika Dua takes a sharp dig at Akshay Kumar's Pad Man challenge

India Today  

Last November, comedian Mallika Dua had a bitter feud with Akshay Kumar, as she said that he passed a sexist remark at her, during their time as judges at the Great Indian Challenge Show. Looks like Mallika is still seething from the fight, as she recently took a sly dig at Akshay's Pad Man promotional strategy on her Instagram story. …

Akshay Kumar on PadMan: Earlier, I didn't have enough money to support socially relevant cinema
7 years, 1 month ago

Akshay Kumar on PadMan: Earlier, I didn't have enough money to support socially relevant cinema

India TV News  

Akshay Kumar is proud of his coming film Pad Man -- a film highlighting awareness on menstrual hygiene. The actor also added that there isn't a single commercial film on sanitary pads, not even in Hollywood, as people shy away from discussing the topic in public. Akshay's Pad Man -- which marks his wife Twinkle Khanna's maiden production venture -- …

Akshay Kumar in and as 'Padman' in R Balki's next produced by Twinkle Khanna
8 years, 2 months ago

Akshay Kumar in and as 'Padman' in R Balki's next produced by Twinkle Khanna

Firstpost  

Akshay Kumar will play the role of social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham, the ‘Menstrual Man of India’ in Padman to be produced by his wife Twinkle In what will be his wife Twinkle Khanna’s maiden production venture under her new banner Mrs Funnybones Movies, Akshay Kumar will play a sanitary napkin manufacturer in filmmaker R Balki’s Padman. The first film under …

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