Padman movie is a 2018 Bollywood Hindi comedy-drama film and Directer is R. Balki while Producer are Twinkle Khanna,Gauri Shinde under banner of Grazing Goat Pictures,Hope Productions. Twinkle Khanna’s first film as individual producer.
The film story is inspired on life of Tamil Nadu-based social activist Arunachalam Muruganatham, who revolutionized the concept of menstrual hygiene in rural India by creating a low-cost sanitary napkins machine.
The film leading Stars cast are Akshay Kumar, Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte in main roles. Amitabh Bachchan will appear in a special role. Akshay’s speech in UN was shot in one take.
The film was released on 9 February 2018 with positive critics reviews and also the film collected 207.73 crore rs. (US$29 million) worldwide, becoming a major critical and moderate commercial success as well as the tenth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2018.
Padman movie also won Best film awards at 66th National Films Award on Other Social Issues. Akshay Kumar’s performance in the film was highly appreciated, for which he gets a Best Actor nomination at the various Bollywood Awards ceremony.
Padman movie was banned in Pakistan as they felt the subject of Menstrual inappropriate.
- Directer : R. Balki
- Producer : Twinkle Khanna,Gauri Shinde
- Writer : R. Balki
- Based on : Arunachalam Muruganantham
- Starring : Akshay Kumar,Sonam Kapoor,Radhika Apte
- Music : Amit Trivedi
- lyrics: Kausar Munir
- Cinematography : P.C. Sreeram
- Editor : Hemanti Sarkar
- Casting Director : Shruti Mahajan
- Production Design : Rupin Suchak
- Set Decoration : Naveen Jain
- Costume Design : Ayushi Jain, Theia Tekchandaney
- Assistant Director : Ajay Arya, Ruby Chauhan,Viral Desai, Zoya Parvin, Ambica Rana, Jagan Shakti, Skandha Sreeram
- Action Director : Amar Shetty
- Production company : Grazing Goat Pictures,Hope Productions
- Distributor : Eros International
- Genres : Comedy, Drama
- Release date : 26 January 2018
- Running time : 140 minute
- Country : India
- Language : Hindi
Padman movie trailer :
Star Cast :
- Akshay Kumar as a Lakshmikant Chauhan
- Radhika Apte as a Gayatri
- Sonam Kapoor as a Pari Walia
- Jyoti Subhash as a Lakshmi’s Mother
- Urmila Mahanta
- Suneel Sinha as a Prof Tejas Walia (Pari’s Father)
- Sanjay Singh
- Rakesh Chaturvedi Om
- Mrinmayee Godbole
- Mridul Satam
- Parul Chauhan
- Saurabh Agarwal
- Amitabh Bachchan as a Self
- Varun Bag
- Himika Bose as a Medical College Student
- Riva Bubber as a Tinku’s Mother
- Gautmik
- Chittaranjan Giri
- Lalita Goyal
- Shriram Jog as a Partner and Mentor
- Tiffany M. Johnson as a UN Ambassador
- Faiz Khan as a Haria
- Wasim Khan as a Drunk Man
- Swini Khara
- Ran Levy as a UN Ambassador
- Zachary Harris Martin as a UN Representative
- Biju Menon
- Aman Singh Mukar as a Interpreter
- Andreas Pliatsikas as a UN Member
- A.R. Rama
- Santosh Rege as a Business Partner, Jeetu Bhai
- Abhimanyu Sarkar as a Gayatri’s brother
- Amit Sharma
- Nandini Shrivastava as a Vikreet
- Akash Srivastava as a MPTDC-Driver
- Rob Tunstall as a UN Ambassador
- George Zouvelos as a United States Diplomat
Pre-Post Production :
The film is based on the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who revolutionized the concept of menstrual hygiene in rural India by creating a low-cost sanitary napkin machine.
Pad Man film was propose to be an awareness film without focusing on commercial aspects. The producers’ main agenda was to reach out to a wide audience to create awareness and eradicate prevalent superstitions in India surrounding sanitary pads.
As with Akshay Kumar’s previous film, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, he hoped to educate the masses, both women and men, about menstrual hygiene and to stop labelling it as stigma or taboo in society. In addition, it was a appeal towards politicians to drive their attention towards sanitary pads and making it mandatory across institutions.
The idea to adapt Murugan’s life started in 2015 when Twinkle Khanna came across his story while doing a research for a column in The Times of India. Inspired and moved by his persistence and determination, she wrote about him in her book, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad (2016).
Simultaneously a screen version of his life was planned, in order to reach out to more audiences, saying “our world is filled with viewers, not readers.”Twinkle Khanna, who also serves as a co-producer on the film, said she was drawn to the project due to its relevant yet underrated subject about menstruation and Muruganantham’s determination.
She stated that the makers would be taking “creative liberties” with the subject as she had done in her book, to make it “entertaining”.
R. Balki was Twinkle Khanna’s first choice to write and direct the film. She had previously seen Balki’s work and appreciated his sensitivity in filmmaking.
In November 2017, Sony Pictures became the global distributor for the film.
Casting :
Akshay Kumar plays Arunachalam Muruganantham, also known as “India’s Menstrual Man”.
Akshay Kumar was not the first choice to play the role. R. Balki and Twinkle Khanna wanted Akshay to play the lead role and because they thought it would be a game-changing event if Akshay, who the Indian public idolises and men look up to, wore a sanitary pad.
Film Shooting :
Pre-production started in March 2017 and film shooting started on 14 March. Film shooting moved to Delhi in April.
Muruganantham worked closely with R. Balki, Akshay and Twinkle on set in India, making sure every detail was accurate from the way he built his machine, to how to operate it, even his own posture.
The majority of the film was shot in the small town of Maheshwar beside the Narmada River in Madhya Pradesh. After film shooting ended in India, the team travelled to New York City where important scenes were filmed at the Brooklyn Bridge, in Times Square, and at Jazz at Lincoln Center, as well as at the United Nations headquarters.
It is the second Bollywood film to be shot at the site after Half Girlfriend; the Hollywood film The Interpreter was the first film to ever be shot there.
Padman movie songs / music :
The film music composer is Amit Trivedi while the lyricist is Kausar Munir.
The first song, “Aaj Se Teri”, which is playback by Arijit Singh, was released on 23 December 2017 and the second song, “The Pad Man Song”, playback by Mika Singh, was released on 30 December 2017.
The music of the film was officially released by Zee Music Company on 18 January 2018.
- “Aaj Se Teri”………………..Arijit Singh
- “The Pad Man Song” …………Mika Singh
- “Hu Ba Hu”…………………..Amit Trivedi
- “Saale Sapne”……………..Mohit Chauhan
- “Sayaani”………..Yashita Sharma, Jonita Gandhi, Yashika Sikka, Rani Kaur
“Aaj Se Teri” full video song :
- Singer : Arijit Singh
- Music Director : Amit Trivedi
- Lyricist : Kausar Munir
- Music On : Zee Music Company
“The Pad Man Song” full video song :
- Singer : Mika Singh
- Additional Vocals : Pragati Joshi, Deepti Rege & Mayuri Kudalkar
- Music Director : Amit Trivedi
- Lyricist : Kausar Munir
- Music On : Zee Music Company
“Hu Ba Hu” full video song :
- Singer : Amit Trivedi
- Backing Vocals : Rajiv Sundaresan & Suhas Sawant
- Music Director : Amit Trivedi
- Lyricist : Kausar Munir
- Music On : Zee Music Company
