R Balki’s Padman is based on the true story of Arunachalam Muruganantham, the inventor of a low-cost sanitary pad-making machine in India.
Akshay Kumar is playing the lead and Radhika Apte is playing his wife. Sonam Kapoor’s character in the movie is still not known but she will soon be joing the crew once she returns to India form her family vacation in London. Produced by Twinkle Khanna, Padman is being shot in real locations of Maheshwar, a town in the Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh, that is 90 km from Indore.
