- "America has Spiderman, Batman, India has Padman."
This is a slogan when the movie "Padman" was released in India. Superheroes such as Spiderman and Batman are all familiar to all of us, but what is Padman? I believe everyone will be curious and confused.
Why Padman? As the word implies, the pad man refers to the key figure in India, who solves the problem of women's sanitary napkin use, and is recognized as a friend of women in India. The father of the cheap aunt towel, was born in Muruganantham, Coimbatore in 1962. He was a hand weaver before. After his father passed away at the age of 14, he was forced to drop out of school to earn money to provide a family.
In 1998, after Muruganantham got married, his life changed because he found that his wife could not afford sanitary napkins and had to use a dirty pad during her menstrual period. The price is extremely high, and the status of women in India is low. Those symptoms of women's menstrual period are regarded as unclean by religion or traditional culture. No one thinks that women's menstruation is a problem, and no one regards this as a problem. one question.
However, Muruganantham has been stuck with this small piece of cloth since then. He began to learn how to make sanitary napkins, and even tried it himself. He kept researching the absorption, compression and other aspects of sanitary napkins, and finally it took four years to produce it. A machine that can mass-produce affordable sanitary napkins.
Even in the process, no one understands him, in the face of some traditional and pedantic cultures, women's menstruation is a cursed thing, and a man who studies this matter all day seems perverted, and everyone around Muruganantham This shame, including his wife. But fortunately, he finally persevered and was gradually recognized by the mainstream. In the end, because of his hard work, the most women in India can use healthier and cheaper sanitary pads. Muruganantham also won India's fourth highest civilian award for this. In 2014, he was even selected by "Time" Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
The movie "The Padman" is basically about Muruganantham, who, because of his love for his wife, embarks on a thing that no one understands, and finally makes this thing a blessing for all. Big business for women. The most moving part of the film is Muruganantham's persistence and innocence. In the difficult environment of unfavorable discord from time to time, he is consistent and believes that he is doing the right thing, which is worthy of awe.
But the greatness of Muruganantham is not just that he made the machine, but also his determination to change the situation of women's hygiene in India. He could have like all Indian men and not take it as a thing, He could have applied for a patent and sold it to a big company to earn money to become a rich man after making the machine, but instead of doing so, he chose to help grassroots women start their own businesses, and insisted on low prices for sanitary napkins, so that more people could use them. Come on, to change Indian women to change the status quo.
In the film, Muruganantham has suffered a lot of humiliation and slander along the way, and there is always some kind of power in the entire telling of the story. In the process of solving every unspoken social problem, there is always such a pure and steadfast little person who is willing to expend effort and dedicate himself - the existence of the Tao, although there are millions of people, I will go, this is the most Invaluable place.
In recent years, there have often been some such films in India, and they have often become popular. In my opinion, all these images and stories are the inevitable result of a society struggling in the process of civilization, and the huge repercussions brought by the images and stories It's a reflection of how society is slowly changing for the better.
Before "The Pad Man", India also released a film called " Toilet Hero " (this film was also released in China in early June). The story of the film is roughly similar. It tells about a man who builds a toilet for his wife and becomes a " hero". hero" story.
The interesting thing is that the male protagonist in the film is starred by the same person - it is also very interesting that he built a toilet for his wife in "Toilet Hero", and then went to "Pad Man" to make sanitary napkins for his wife.
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Head image: "The Padman" poster
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