PADMAN-Be a real life superhero. Review on Pad Man

Padman. The most inspiring movie I have ever seen. The movie content includes all the problems female face while periods. Akshay sir gave many different solution of periods in funny way. The movie also pull our attention to the people's cheap mentality. A very well motivating movie from all angles.PadMan isn’t a particularly good film. It has tonal problems, swinging between commonplace-ness and flat-out filmi-ness, because it is trying to appeal to many constituencies at thesame time.PadMan is based on the real-life inspirational story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, the man who famously invented a machine that led to the creation of a low-cost sanitary napkin, and created a real-life revolution.There is absolutely no doubt that thesubject and the intention of the film is applause-worthy. In India, the ‘shame’ associated with ‘that time ofthe month’ is still so strong and so pervasive that anything that brings out into the open is cause to cheer, and a film starring a big star is sometimes the best way to break age-old taboos.This is a country where girls and women with the ‘curse’ are ex-communicated when they have their periods, not allowed to come into the kitchen, or touch ‘achaar’ because it will ‘go bad’, or any other human being because they will ‘become impure’. Not just having your periods is shameful, but even buying sanitary towels is a clandestine affair ( the shopkeeper will wrap the packet in double layers so it can’t be seen) . Women live in terror of the blood seeping through and staining their clothes: it is as natural as the monthly cycle but it can be the cause of deathly mortification. And young men make nasty, sexist remarks about ‘five day test matches’ ( I hadn’t heard that one before, but I’m sure there are worse epithets for menstruating women) .Akshay Kumar is now consistently green-lighting socially-relevant films, and that is fine and laudable ( Pad Man is produced by his wife Twinkle Khanna, a witty commentator on social mores) . His 2017 Toilet: Ek Prem Katha started conversations around having toilets within the house. I liked both what it was tryingto say and how it was doing so: it was done with a degree of flair.PadMan is as worthy, but it isn’t a particularly good film. It has tonal problems, swinging between commonplace-ness and flat-out filmi-ness, because it is trying to appeal to many constituencies at thesame time: a song to celebrate the onset of menstruation of a little girl uses the problematic word ‘nakel’, which means ‘to be led by the nose’. The song gives the perennially weepy Gayatri to swing her waist, but achieves little else. The arrival ofperky city girl Pari ( Kapoor) perks upthe proceedings, even if she is used to invoke a clumsy, after-the-thoughtromantic angle. Pari’s character is a figment of the filmmakers’ imagination. She ‘helps’ Lakshmikant realize his dreams, speaking to the urban girls who call their periods ‘chums’; the ‘seedha-palla’ wearing Gayatri is the spokesperson for those who call it ‘maahvaari’ or ‘mahina’.A good movie with an inspiring theme.My rating-4/5