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.
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Inspired from the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who created a low-cost sanitary napkins machine for rural women in India, Pad Man revolves around Laxmikant (Akshay Kumar), a simple, unlettered but innovative man living in a small village on the bank of river Narmada in Madhya Pradesh. He has just married Gayatri (Radhika Apte) and loves her unconditionally. Everything is hunkydory in their small world until Laxmi realizes what all his wife goes through during her periods. He brings her sanitary napkins from market, but she refuses to use them as they...