Pad Man
Country
Production
Budget
$10 000 000
Box office
$29 045 020
Director
Actors
Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte, Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, Jyoti Subhash, Mrinmayee Godbole, Soumya Vyas, Riva Bubber, Urmila Mahanta, Amitabh Bachchan, Suneel Sinha
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Twinkle Khanna, Gauri Shinde, Vivek Krishnani, Prashant Shah
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Rupin Suchak
Audition
Editing
Chandan Arora
Whole Team (28)
Whole Team (28)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- Many celebrities from the film industry joined the film's promotional campaign, posting their photos with sanitary pads on social media.
- The vending machine for feminine hygiene products shown in the film is an exact, working replica of the original machine invented by Arunachalam Muruganantham. He personally oversaw the creation of the replica.
- Akshay Kumar's speech at the UN was filmed in one take.
- In one episode, Akshay Kumar's character looks at childhood photos of the heroine, played by Sonam Kapoor. In one of the photos, Sunil Shetty's face is inserted in place of her real father, Anil Kapoor, who plays her father in the film.
- The plot is based on the story “The Sanitary Workers of the Holy Land” from Twinkle Khanna’s collection “The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad,” inspired by the life and work of Indian inventor and social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham. He is known for inventing a manual device for producing inexpensive sanitary pads. He is also known for promoting hygiene in the poorest areas of India and other countries.
- This is the second film in Hindi to receive permission to film inside the UN building in New York. The first such film was Mohit Suri’s melodrama “Half Girlfriend” (2017).
- The plot is based on the story 'Sanitarians of the Holy Land' from Twinkle Khanna's collection 'The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad,' inspired by the life and work of Indian inventor and social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham. He is known for inventing a manual device for producing affordable sanitary pads for women. He is also known for promoting hygiene in the poorest areas of India and other countries.
- This is the second Hindi-language film whose creators managed to obtain permission to film inside the UN building in New York. The first such film was Mohit Suri's melodrama 'Half Girlfriend' (2017).
- The speech delivered by Akshay Kumar's character at the UN was filmed in a single take.
- In one of the episodes, Akshay Kumar's character looks at childhood photographs of the heroine played by Sonam Kapoor. In one of the photos, the face of her real father, Anil Kapoor, has been replaced with the face of Sunil Sinha, who plays her father in the film.
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