Special screening of 'Pad Man' for Malala
BY IANS15 Feb 2018 3:12 PM GMT
IANS15 Feb 2018 3:12 PM GMT
Mumbai: Malala Yousafzai had expressed her solidarity with the message of menstrual hygiene in R. Balki's latest directorial Pad Man. Plans are afoot to show the film to the Nobel Peace Prize winner, says the director.
"What can I say about Malala coming forward to support our film? We are blessed and honoured. It is voices like her which would carry our message in Pad Man forward. Menstruation must not be swept under the carpet any more. And we need powerful voices like Malala's to carry the message forward," said Balki. He revealed plans of showing Pad Man to Malala. "We are definitely showing it to her at the earliest, as soon as the logistics are worked out."
For Balki, Pad Man, which ia about the man who invented the economical sanitary pad, is a leap into the unknown that he was initially reluctant to take. "Firstly, this is a story of a real-life character Arunachalam Muruganantham. The fact that he really exists initially daunted me. "I don't like making films about people who exist specially those who are alive, as this puts tremendous pressure on the filmmaker to replicate the real person without offence to anyone, I would rather go into lives that I conceive specially for cinema." But then something made Balki change his mind.
"I decided to do Pad Man because the story of the man who thought of making the sanitary pad affordable to middle class really inspired me.
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