Since the time news broke that Akshay Kumar would play the lead role in Pad Man, there has been a lot of excitement among.
Moviegoers were eager to see how the Bollywood superstar would slip into the role of Arunachalam Muruganantham (the social entrepreneur from Coimbatore, who invented low-cost sanitary napkins for women in rural areas). Also, this is the first time Akshay was teaming up with writer-director R Balki and sharing screen space with Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor.
The movie has been close to his heart as it is the debut production venture of his better half Twinkle Khanna, who was the first to chronicle Muruganantham’s journey in her book.
