PADMAN trailer based on an innovator obsessed with creating low-price sanitary pads

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In a country where menstruation is still spoken of as a shameful secret, PadMan follows the extraordinary journey of a Coimbatore school drop-out who made it his life's mission to provide low-cost sanitary napkins to poor women across rural India. Arunachalam Muruganantham, also known as ‘India’s Menstrual Man’, is an innovator who was obsessed with the idea of creating cost-effective sanitary pads.

 

Muruganantham wanted to provide a clean, low-cost sanitary pad for his wife after discovering that she used dirty unhygienic rags. He experimented by making pads out of cotton, which did not work.

He used his experiments on his wife and sisters to check if his indigenous pads were effective but they refused to continue using them after a few trials

Muruganantham approached female medical students to try out his product, but they were shy and refused He then decided to wear the sanitary pad himself

Muruganantham went around with a pad in his underwear and a bottle filled with animal blood, which would squeeze out the blood on to the pad at regular intervals

His neighbours started calling him a ‘pervert’ and his wife decided to leave him hoping it would bring him back to his senses, and even served him a divorce notice

After 2 years of research and findings, Muruganantham figured out how to procure the exact material he needed and the process to manufacture a good quality sanitary pad at home

Muruganantham’s low-cost sanitary pad making machines are now sold across India and are even being procured internationally

In 2014 Time magazine featured him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world.

 

Source: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/padman-muruganantham-coimbatore-innovator-whose-life-now-bollywood-film-73290

[ponpiri]

Ha. I listened to an interview of his from this year or last year. He was estranged from his wife for years because of his pad obsession. Good thing he stuck it out.

[PurachinaDisuko]

...did his wife come back