In India, menstruation, as ironic as it may seem, has often been viewed as unnatural. We claim to have welcomed liberalism and feminism, yet women find themselves hiding sanitary napkins in their bags.
In a country where parents do not want to talk about “the birds and the bees” with their children, and where the reproductive cycle is reduced to a chapter in biology textbooks, R Balki’s Pad Man comes like a breath of fresh air; especially since Bollywood has often ignored, or rather avoided, this subject. The film is based on a short story in ...
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First Published: Sat, February 10 2018. 05:50 IST
