{"id":2063,"date":"2016-05-13T04:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T22:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/padman-review-akshay-kumar-arunachalam-muruganantham-twinkle-khanna\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T19:53:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:23:33","slug":"padman-review-akshay-kumar-arunachalam-muruganantham-twinkle-khanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2063","title":{"rendered":"PadMan Review: Stained by Clich\u00e9s. Period."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"container page-content\"><p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span><\/p><\/div><p>efore<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hit theatres, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/akshay-kumar-bollywood-50th-birthday\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Akshay Kumar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, aka <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/jeetendra-sexual-assault-me-too-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bollywood\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> resident Problem-Solver-in-Chief, had a reputation of eradicating a lot of pertinent evils.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Airlift<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he facilitated the ghar-wapsi of stranded Indians from Kuwait. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/theres-something-about-sylvia-rustom-nanavati-case\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rustom<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he engineered his own ghar-wapsi from jail. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/naam-shabana-review-akshay-kumar-taapsee-pannu-bollywood-manoj-bajpayee-anupam-kher-shivam-nair\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naam Shabana<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he deftly arranged <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/pink-and-the-case-for-jurrat-pink-film-sexual-harassment-assault-amitabh-bachchan\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tapsee Pannu\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ghar-wapsi from her own lead outing, and finally in last year\u2019s government-approved <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/toilet-ek-bhakt-ki-katha-review\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toilet: Ek Prem Katha<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the man managed to successfully aid the ghar-wapsi of any kind of objectivity. It\u2019s fitting then, that in the ambitiously thick-headed <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Akshay Kumar has been tasked with the monumental duty of coaxing ghar-wapsi of every woman\u2019s \u201cfive-day test match\u201d problems. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this new socially conscious outing, Khiladi 420 lends his support to women empowerment, and his wife, the self-proclaimed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/twinkle-khanna-koffee-with-karan-bollywood-ae-dil-hai-mushkil-kajol\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mrs Funnybones<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is by his side. The film is inspired by the extraordinary story of social entrepreneur, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/meet-the-real-padman-before-bollywood-ruins-it\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Arunachalam Muruganantham<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who was awarded the Padma Shri for inventing low-cost sanitary pad machines that provided jobs to over a million rural women (and who gets a measly two-second end credit). But the film\u2019s \u201cconcept\u201d credit rests solely with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/twinkle-khanna-mallika-dua-controversy-akshay-kumar-the-great-indian-laughter-challenge-mrs-funnybones-casual-sexism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twinkle Khanna<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, clicker of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/why-manoj-still-takes-a-dump-by-the-sea-swacch-bharat-abhiyan-toilets-toilet-ek-prem-katha-twinkle-khanna-potty-humour\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">men taking a dump by the sea<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and non-believer of women taking <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news18.com\/news\/movies\/twinkle-khanna-doesnt-support-the-idea-of-menstrual-leave-1651833.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">menstrual leaves<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It indeed takes a lot of funnybones to sneak credit for someone\u2019s whole life and turn it into a commercialisation vehicle that represents everything that Muruganantham is vehemently against.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two years after Khanna wrote a fictionalised tale based on Muruganantham in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Legends of Lakshmi Prasad<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the film that we are left with has no resemblance to any part of his life. R Balki may be credited as the director of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but it is in fact Khanna\u2019s very expensive <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/mumbai-new-malabar-hill-bkc-navi-mumbai-kanjurmarg-zen-garden\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Juhu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> lens that dominates much of the film, visible in the overreaching \u201cwoke\u201d urban gaze in a film that is meant to be about a predominantly rural issue.<\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1518163246.jpg\" alt=\"PadMan Review\" width=\"724\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31193\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In <em>PadMan<\/em>, Akshay Kumar&#8217;s Lakshmi clearly shares more chemistry and familiarity with the pads than with his wife, Gayatri. <\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Mrs Funnybones Productions<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, set in Maheshwar in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/madhya-pradesh-shivraj-singh-chouhan-better-usa-khajuraho-bhopal-tragedy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madhya Pradesh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, (Muruganantham is originally from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu) Kumar plays Lakshmikant Chauhan, (only so he can crack a \u201cLakshmi can\u201d pun at the UN) a mechanic who sets out to invent a low-cost sanitary pad so that his wife Gayatri (a severely wasted Radhika Apte) isn\u2019t forced to use a dirty cloth during her <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/international-menstrual-hygiene-day-menstruation-periods-sanitary-napkins\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">periods<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. So far, so good. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Except, the film has the emotional heft of sandpaper, since Lakshmi clearly shares more chemistry and familiarity with the pads than with his wife, Gayatri. \u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As it turns out, Gayatri, and his family are not as receptive to his entrepreneurial skills as he\u2019d expect. So, Lakshmi does the unthinkable and tests his pads on himself, using a fake uterus and animal blood. The one scene in the film that could come close to being heralded as revolutionary \u2013 the sight of a mass-friendly A-lister wearing a pink panty with a sanitary pad inside it \u2013 is a disappointingly blink-and-miss moment, whose culmination gets undermined by the needless theatrics in the next scene. Upon realising that the pad he\u2019s wearing has failed at absorbing the blood, Kumar dashes off and dives into the water with a demented Donald Duck-esque urgency, because that\u2019s what women who are stained during their periods usually do. In a film about menstruation, this is also the only time when there\u2019s actual blood on screen.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even the disgust of the villagers when presented with a man who is obsessed with sanitary pads is presented with a heightened sense of one-note dramatics without an iota of realism, that could put <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/the-secret-diary-of-a-saas-bahu-writer-indian-daily-soaps-television\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">saas-bahu<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> serials to shame. After depicting the most extra AF panchayat meeting where copious tears are shed and the wife is separated, Lakshmi decides to lead a sacrifice and leave his village, which leads us to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s second half, or \u201cWhat the hell is Twinkle Khanna smoking?\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter Pari (Sonam Kapoor). Because every socially conscious film needs a pretty tabla-playing MBA type girl who has not yet discovered the social worker inside of her. While Lakshmi ends up migrating to a small village where he builds his inexpensive sanitary pad machines, Pari learns of his wretched story and convinces him to come to IIT Delhi and participate in an Innovation Competition. He obliged, except, he ends up wanting to pee in the middle of demonstrating his machine to the judges. Worry not, there\u2019s a reason the scene is in the film; so that a \u201cno pad for susu\u201d joke can be cracked. God bless the Juhu lens!<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anyway, Lakshmi obviously ends up winning that competition which then makes Pari realise that she always wanted to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/jab-harry-met-sejal-review-shah-rukh-khan-anushka-sharma-imtiaz-ali\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manic-pixie<\/a> social worker. The duo then start the process of visiting numerous villages and convincing women to not just use pads for their periods but also buy their machines and start up their own factory to produce low-cost sanitary pads. All in the span of less than five seconds. Even brainwashing someone takes longer. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1518163262.jpg\" alt=\"PadMan Review\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31192\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>Apparently, the story of a man finding global acclaim for inventing low-cost sanitary pads needs a love triangle subplot only so he can be deemed more heroic for resisting the temptation of cheating.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: Mrs Funnybones Productions<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At this point, R Balki, is understandably upset at Khanna hogging the limelight with her Juhu-centric guidance. So, he nobly takes up the challenge of #MakingSanitaryPadAdsGreatAgain and shows a teenage girl jumping around in joy after wearing a sanitary pad. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is now as rooted in reality, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/padmaavat-movie-review-padmavati-ranveer-singh-khilji\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Padmaavat<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a celebration of women.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suddenly, we find ourselves at the United Nations (nursing a<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/do-you-deserve-a-half-girlfriend\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Half Girlfriend<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">deja vu), where we also find out that Lakshmi can speak and understand English without ever learning it. Before he\u2019s about to go on stage, he proposes that Pari accompany him. In her reply, Pari just straight out kisses him and later, attempts to explain it by delivering what can already be termed as this year\u2019s cringiest line: \u201cHuman body hai, josh mein it happens.\u201d <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In case, you didn\u2019t guess it yet, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is now a love-triangle replete with the testosterone level of a 15-year-old boy. Apparently, the story of a man finding global acclaim for inventing low-cost sanitary pads needs a love triangle subplot only so he can be deemed more heroic for resisting the temptation of cheating and dutifully returning to his wife. To be fair, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/sonam-kapoor-koffee-with-karan-karan-johar-kareena-kapoor-neerja\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sonam Kapoor\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> insufferable acting skills do end up making the choice easier for Lakshmi.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This unnecessary detour is emblematic of the filmmakers\u2019 lack of faith in the natural greatness of the story at hand, finding a need to instead pepper it with urban cliches and conflicts. In doing so, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> moves away from being a film which could start a conversation around menstruation that goes beyond men holding up some pads or bellowing lines like \u201cMard hone ka asli maaza andar ki auraat jagane se aata hai\u201d.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But to be fair, some good did come out of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PadMan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Thanks to the thoughtful #PadmanChallenge, Bollywood actors have finally realised what a pad looks like. Now only if they read up on the 12 per cent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/india-gst-business-bjp-arun-jaitley-modi\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GST<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that the government is imposing on sanitary pads, Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna\u2019s peak performative feminism can finally reach its climax. <\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest socially conscious outing, PadMan, Akshay Kumar lends his support to women empowerment, and his wife, the self-proclaimed Mrs Funnybones, is by his side. R Balki may be credited as the director of PadMan, but it is in fact Khanna\u2019s very expensive Juhu lens that dominates much of the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":2067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3114],"tags":[1589,4154,1635,4145,4147,2736,4155,4156,4157,4158,283,681],"class_list":["post-2063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bollywood","tag-akshay-kumar","tag-low-cost-sanitary-pads","tag-madhya-pradesh","tag-menstrual-hygiene","tag-menstruation","tag-padman","tag-padman-challenge","tag-padman-review","tag-r-balki","tag-radhika-apte","tag-sonam-kapoor","tag-twinkle-khanna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PadMan Review: Stained by Clich\u00e9s. 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