Pad Man
(2018)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 248 votes
Year: 2018
Runtime: 140 мин
Country: India, United States of America
Director: R. Balki
Cast: Акшай Кумар, Радхика Апте, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Jyoti Subhash, Mrinmayee Godbole, Soumya Vyas, Riva Bubber, Urmila Mahanta, Амитабх Баччан, Suneel Sinha
Plot
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
Biography of Tamil Nadu activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, whose mission was to provide sanitary napkins to poor women of rural areas who used rags or leaves because sanitary napkins were rare. After he did not get fruitful results from his family and a medical college he approached, he decided to try it himself by filling a football bladder with goat's blood and roaming around with it for a day to check the absorption rate of the sanitary napkins he made.