Name: Akshay Kumar's Pad Man Challenge is what India needs to break the taboo around menstruation
Uploaded: 2018-02-09T21:17:44+0000
Channel: Radhika Bhalla
Description: The film is based on the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, who developed low-cost sanitary pads and raised awareness about unhygienic menstrual practices in villages.

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The Akshay Kumar starrer movie is about a man who tries to fight the stigma attached to menstruation by developing low-cost sanitary pads.

&lt;p id='p_1'&gt;If you are on Twitter or Instagram, you cannot have missed the gazillion pictures of celebrities posing with a sanitary pad as part of the Pad Man challenge. Not only Bollywood actors like Aamir Khan, Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Varun Dhawan, Anushka Sharma and Alia Bhatt, the challenge is also being taken by the who's who from the world of sports, like PV Sindhu and Ravi Shastri. And it seems to have reached the 'real people' too, what with Prachi Desai posting a photo of her in-ghoonghat maid holding a sanitary napkin.&lt;/p&gt;

Akshay Kumar's Pad Man Challenge is what India needs to break the taboo around menstruation

The film is based on the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, who developed low-cost sanitary pads and raised awareness about unhygienic menstrual practices in villages.