Hello, the movie I want to recommend to you today is the 2018 Indian Padman based on the true story of Indian grassroots entrepreneur Muruganantham. This is an Indian biographical film that is inspirational and truly defends women's rights.
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Lakshmi found that his wife Gaiati always slept outside the room due to customs and ideas on those days of the month, and even avoided her husband for fear of contaminating her husband with her unclean self during her period.
One day Lakshmi found out that Gaiati was using a dirty cloth repeatedly during his period. According to Lakshmi's original words, it was so dirty that he wouldn't even think about wiping his bicycle. cloth. Lakshmi, who loved his wife, thought about how his wife was using such a dirty cloth to spend her menstrual period. He was restless, and immediately went to the store to buy a pack of advertised sanitary napkins for his wife. The owner of the store and the customers in the store whispered and looked at him with tinted glasses as a weirdo, and the owner even sneaked it into him.
The price of such a light package of sanitary napkins is 55 rupees (about 5 yuan), and Lakshmi even borrowed dozens of rupees from friends to get enough funds to buy this package of sanitary napkins, which symbolizes free flight. This expensive and extravagant gift was immediately rejected by the wife. The wife sternly asked Lakshmi to return it immediately, and said that she would never use such an extravagant gift, and hoped that her husband would stop worrying about his own affairs. .
Lakshmi, whose return was rejected by the store owner, took out a sanitary napkin and wrapped it over the wound of the worker one day at a critical juncture when the worker was injured and bleeding. The workers thought he was crazy, how could he put such a dirty thing used by women on the wounds of men? However, the doctor affirmed Lakshmi. He said that sterile sanitary napkins are actually the cleanest things. If it weren't for Lakshmi's emergency, the worker's wound would have been infected and even faced the risk of amputation.
During the communication with the doctor, Lakshmi learned that in 2012, 80% of women in India did not use sanitary napkins for various reasons. Most of them used dirty cloth, leaves or even dirt to solve the problem. It is precisely because the hygiene is not guaranteed that gynecological diseases abound, and many girls are infertile at a young age and even face the risk of death. The shocked Lakshmi was determined to allow his wife to use sanitary pads, but a pack of sanitary pads worth 55 rupees was not accepted by his wife anyway. Facing a dilemma, Lakshmi faced the seemingly After spending a long time with the simple and thin sanitary napkin, he decided to make a sanitary napkin with his own hands and give it to his wife.
Lakshmi used cotton, gauze and other materials at first. Although the shape of the sanitary napkins made is similar to the purchased ones, the water absorption is not satisfactory. It was difficult to persuade his wife to use them, but they were not easy to use and stained. Clothes and bedding. His wife Gaiati said nothing and did not want to use it again, and made it clear that her husband was so concerned about things under her skirt that she felt extremely ashamed, and would rather get sick than her husband would take care of him.
But Lakshmi didn't give up, and his wife didn't want to try him, so he begged the neighbor's little girl who was just in her jasper years, and begged the seemingly enlightened medical student, and even hung a blood bag on his body to try it out. As a result, he was covered in blood and was regarded as a pervert of the devil's upper body. The women in the village even suggested to the village chief to hang him upside down on a tree to exorcise him, and his wife resolutely took the bus away and left this "madman". "The man.
But Lakshmi, who had been in the doldrums for a while, did not give up. He was determined to make a sanitary napkin that his wife could afford. He went abroad and started a research trip on sanitary napkins. He had no one to ask for advice, so he started a low-class job in a cultural family. After identification by the machine, he found that the sanitary napkin was not made of ordinary cotton, but made of special fiber material, and this special fiber is not easy to buy in India. However, he got the help of the children in the family who were still in school, and lied that he had called American manufacturers for a large company and obtained trial samples of some raw materials. Also with the help of this cultural man, Lakshmi was able to get a glimpse of the working principle of the multi-million dollar sanitary napkin manufacturing machine in the United States.
Lakshmi, who did not have the funds to purchase expensive machines, began his journey of exploration. He began to try to complete the manufacturing tools of sanitary napkins by transforming some inexpensive everyday machines. Although the manufacture was completed, Lakshmi had no experimental subjects to try, and people around him always regarded him as a monster with a devil's upper body.
However, lucky Lakshmi met Parry, a musician who came to the tour. She was highly educated. Parry met Lakshmi when she couldn't buy sanitary products in the middle of the night. In a hurry, she used Lakshmi to carry Carry sanitary napkins.
The first time she encountered someone using her own sanitary pad, Lakshmi excitedly chased Parry to ask her how she felt about using it. Although the situation is a bit strange, when Parry heard the story of Lakshmi, she was deeply moved, she even participated in the national invention competition, and it was this competition that completely made Lakshmi famous. . Lakshmi, who only used simple materials to break the foreign monopoly and successfully manufactured sanitary napkins, was affirmed by the organizing committee and won the championship, but he was reluctant to apply for a patent and sell it to a big company. Because he believes that the original intention of making sanitary pads is to allow his wife and even thousands of Indian women who use dirty cloth to use clean sanitary pads, and if he sells the machine to a big company, he will repeat the mistake of 55 rupees of sanitary pads.
Lakshmi, who won a high competition prize, gave up his upper-class life and returned to the grassroots. Together with his partner Parry, he went to various villages and towns to make and sell sanitary pads for only 5 rupees for local women. And they used the money they made to make more machines, hired a lot of women with no financial status, not only rescued them from menstrual periods with dirty cloths with no guarantee of hygiene, but also improved their economy by giving them jobs. Status allows women to truly go from standing up and getting rich to being strong.
"A country can only be truly strong when women are strong and mothers are strong." Lakshmi also really brought about a change in the concept of women's menstrual hygiene in India. From more than 80% of women who did not use hygiene products until 2018, India announced the cancellation of import duties on sanitary pads.
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