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Padman box-office collection: Akshay Kumar starrer grosses Rs 59 cr in domestic earnings
Parulsharma • 7 years agoR Balki's directorial venture, Padman, starring Akshay Kumar in the lead has grossed Rs 59.09 at the domestic box-office
Padman: Makers of Akshay Kumar-starrer arranging special screening for Malala Yousafzai
Ians • 7 years agoMalala Yousafzai had expressed her solidarity with the message of menstrual hygiene in R Balki's latest directorial PadMan
Padman in plagiarism row: Writer alleges 11 scenes lifted from script submitted to Dharma Productions
Fp Staff • 7 years agoA writer has accused Padman's makers of lifting 11 scenes from a script he claims to have submitted to the creative head of Dharma Productions
Padman box office collection: Akshay Kumar starrer earns promising Rs 10.26 crore on opening day
Fp Staff • 7 years agoPadman garnered Rs 10.26 crore on the first day of its release and its performance is only expected to get better over the weekend.
Padman: A unique, essential film that doesn't over-glorify Akshay Kumar's male saviour status
Theladiesfinger • 7 years agoOnce you get past the irritation of Akshay Kumar Good Boy status, there’s not much you'll find objectionable about Padman, because Muruganantham’s is a truly unique story.
Padman: Akshay Kumar, 'the poster boy of pop patriotism', has chosen an anti-government issue to sell his film
Devanshsharma • 7 years agoAhead of Padman's release, should Akshay Kumar be given credit for waving a sanitary pad, instead of the National Flag, in front of a government that has turned a deaf ear to pleas of tax-free sanitary napkins?
Padman, periods and Hollywood's problematic stereotyping of menstruating women
Anvishamanral • 7 years agoPeriods, as we — buyers of overpriced sanitary napkins and consumers of painkillers — call them, have always been projected as an ‘event’ in Hollywood. Will Padman change that representation and take Bollywood one step further?
Akshay Kumar on Padman: I always wanted to work and make such films, but never had enough money
Ians • 7 years agoPadman's story is inspired from the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Tamil Nadu-based social activist who revolutionised the concept of menstrual hygiene in rural India by creating the low-cost sanitary napkins machine.
R Balki denies casting Kangana Ranaut, Amitabh Bachchan in Arunima Sinha biopic
Fp Staff • 7 years agoR Balki has refuted reports of casting Kangana Ranaut as Arunima Sinha in the sportswoman's biopic, alongside Amitabh Bachchan
PadMan co-producer Twinkle Khanna reveals R Balki convinced her to cast Akshay Kumar
Fp Staff • 7 years agoTwinkle Khanna says that if the Indian audience could see any actor carry off a sanitary pad in Padman, it would only be her husband Akshay Kumar.