What do you need to excel in today\u2019s India — fluent English? a marketing degree? IIT education? All three are wrong because what you really need is a dream and a belief that cannot be shaken. Padman, Akshay Kumar\u2019s upcoming film, is about such a man. He is a superman and a mad man, as Padman\u2019s title track tells us, and frankly there is only a thin line dividing the two. Unlike the superheroes of the west, this one doesn\u2019t wear his underwear on his spandex suit, instead he wears a pink underwear with a sanitary pad underneath his sparkling white shirt and pant.<\/p>\n
For those who came in late, Padman is based on the life of India\u2019s Menstrual Man — Arunachalam Murugananthamn — who wanted to \u201cplease his wife\u201d by replacing her rag cloth with a sanitary pad and was told that it would disturb their family budget. The film captures Muruganantham\u2019s efforts to make a cheap sanitary pad, his experiments with wearing one and using animal blood to test if it leaked and the hostile reaction of his community for talking openly about menstruation.<\/p>\n
A school drop-out, Muruganantham now runs a company in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, supplying women with sanitary pads in 4,500 villages and providing technology for his low cost hygiene products to 19 other countries.<\/p>\n
Written by Kausar Munir and composed by Amit Trivedi, the song talks about our desi Superman who does not need to jump from multi-storeyed buildings to prove his machismo. While the song celebrates the real life hero as compared to the silver screen ones, it also reinforces archetypical concepts. Akshay says, \u201cEk aurat ki hifazat karne mein nakaamyab insaan apne aap ko mard kaise keh sakta hai? (How can someone, who failed to protect a woman, call himself a man?)\u201d<\/p>\n
Directed by R Balki, the film also features Sonam Kapoor in a lead role. It is slated to hit theatres on January 26, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What do you need to excel in today\u2019s India — fluent English? a marketing degree? IIT education? All three are wrong because what you really need is a dream and a belief that cannot be shaken. Padman, Akshay Kumar\u2019s upcoming film, is about such a man. He is a superman and a mad man, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15741,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15739\/revisions\/15741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}