Four Years Of Pad Man! 5 Reasons Why R Balki's Akshay Kumar Starrer Was A Massive Blockbuster

Posted on 09 Feb, 2022

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Four Years Of Pad Man! 5 Reasons Why R Balki's Akshay Kumar Starrer Was A Massive Blockbuster
R Balki's films have always given fans food for thought long after leaving the movie halls. And his biopic drama Pad Man, inspired by the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham is no different. Today, as the film completes four successful years of release, we take a look back at what made the film the massive success it is.

R Balki's clean storytelling: R Balki's school of filmmaking involves great cinema with a message. 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.

R Balki Akshay Kumar


Spectacular performances: Pad Man features some convincing performances by Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte. The star cast wears the face of their characters throughout the film and gives us a great show.

Pad Man


Arunachalam Muruganantham's story: Inspired by the social entrepreneur's real life story, Pad Man brings alive Muruganantham's struggles and process of inventing low-cost sanitary napkins. Pad Man gave us a realistic superhero who confronts ground reality concerns like scarcity of affordable sanitary napkins, especially in rural India.

Pad Man



Degstimatising menstruation: In the film, Radhika Apte's dialogues, "Hum aurton ke liye, bimari se marna, sharam ke sath jeene se zada behtar hai", sums up the intensity of the taboo surrounding menstruation in Indian society. The film highlights the urgency of getting rid of this mentality and taboo.

Pad Man



Empowering women: "Stronger women make a stronger country", a dialogue said by Akshay Kumar in the movie is a beacon of hope and has a very strong message. Pad Man sees the actor schooling a group of people around how women empowerment is necessary for a better country. All in all, the movie makes us believe that there is still hope for women in our country!

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