Pad Man

Lakshmi, in a small town in Tamil Nadu, sees his wife using rags during her period and decides to make cheap sanitary pads. Nobody will discuss the subject, not his wife, not his mother, not the town. Because he tests the prototypes on himself he is declared mad and has to leave home. R. Balki made it from the real story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, who eventually designed a low-cost manufacturing machine and spread it so that women in villages could run it. Akshay Kumar leads. Its bravest quality is naming the subject openly in mainstream Indian cinema and going straight at the taboo. Who it is for: viewers who like Indian social films drawn from real events. Who it is not for: anyone wanting restraint, since the message is delivered constantly and at volume.