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A new video has premiered for the latest song from Padman featuring Akshay Kumar as an innovative entrepreneur who won awards for his revolutionary machine which helped people of all classes across India.
Padman is a fictionalized account of Padmashri Arunachalam Muruganatham, the man who revolutionized the manufacture of the low cost sanitary napkin in India. Lakshmi is a newly married, humble welder from a rural village in the heart of India. Lakshmi’s incredible journey starts when he is shocked to discover that his wife uses an unhygienic cloth during her periods. Unable to afford a branded pad, he decides to make a sanitary pad himself. After several attempts, his irate wife refuses to be a part of his experiments. Lakshmi’s love and concern for his wife, his determination to make the pad, leads him into situations that cause so much shock and embarrassment that it compels his wife to leave him and his village to banish him.
Lakshmi doesn’t give up. His simplicity of thought, resilience,focus and complete disregard for convention finally leads him to his destiny. A machine that can make a pad! The revolution that follows from spreading menstrual hygiene, to empowering women,to starting mini cooperatives, to a vision of making India a 100% pad-using country, to accolades,to international glory and to a final resolution of his personal life, makes the rest of the feature Padman. His journey to make India a 100% pad using country goes on even today.
