I remember that I saw a moving picture on Weibo: an Indian man riding a bicycle with his lower body like an aunt, with blood spilling from his white pants. Oops my mother just blinded my eyes. The Indian drama really had a different response. I just didn't expect that this shot is from the movie "Indian Partner" that is currently being released, which is actually called "The Padman".
Besides, my partner and I were watching the clip of "When this man bleeds from his lower body" in the movie theater. We laughed and sighed "Yahahah" while watching. It was really: embarrassing to death. Indian cinema does have a habit of exaggeration, but this one is sincere and moving enough to ignore the botched plot coincidences and exaggerated emotional output.
Because this is a very socially responsible movie. In 2018, China only exported a piece of "This Is Not the God of Medicine", which touched ordinary people all over China. Because the topic is involved in people's livelihood issues. In recent years, Indian films have spared no effort to respond to various social problems in India with a point and a face. Education, son preference, domestic violence, women's rights, etc., all involve people's livelihood without exception. So we like to watch Indian movies, because of the problems we have encountered or are experiencing, but we dare not make them, we can't make them, and we don't want to make them.
This movie is based on true events, and I've never been resistant to this type of subject matter. I just didn't expect that India, where men are superior to women, would dare to make a movie with the theme of women's monthly menstruation, and the filming was not bad. Even in China, no one would dare to accept it.
The male protagonist can be said to be an extinct good man in India. So for my wife in India in 2000 who was still using a rag that was too dirty to wipe a bicycle as a pad, I was really heartbroken. Pads are ridiculously expensive, and ordinary people can't afford them. So the process of researching pads, making pads and making pad machines began.
Although it has to be said that many plots are relatively blunt, the coincidences are so incoherent, and the emotional transformation is strong and exaggerated, the storyline still moves forward completely. I originally thought that what I saw was an inspirational story of a poor boy turned into a big entrepreneur (after all, the Chinese translation of "Indian partner" has to be reminiscent of doing business and starting a business), but I was wrong. I really underestimate Indian movies. Starting a business and getting rich from poor is not the original intention of their filming at all. They are still using artistic techniques to shape everyone's sense of social responsibility. Because the movie was originally called "The Padman". The title of chivalry has never been given to entrepreneurs who make money, but to "heroes". These chivalrous men do not seek fame and fortune, but just want to make human society more civilized, healthy, harmonious and equal. Padman really is like that.
You think that he invented a machine and sold it to a company with a patent, so he should have become a businessman so naturally, no, he did not choose this truth. He is single-minded about making pads or a machine for making pads, not by seizing business opportunities to make money, but really wanting to allow all Indian women to buy health at a low price, and to manufacture machines for backward places, and also for local of women create jobs. He deserves the title of "Hero".
In particular, his speech in the United States is the most profound and best speech I have seen in a movie recently. Although the whole process of poor English pronunciation and the expression of no more than 50 English words, it is too powerful and 100% inspiring. I think the reason is: the word sincerity.
Indian cinema once again uses its sincerity to teach us a lesson: what is social responsibility? We, who are about to fall into intriguing money transactions, sometimes need to look at these developing Indian films that are behind us, to find our original intentions that are about to be lost.
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