For the most part a true tale w/a bit of Indian movie dramatization (i.e. a couple of song/dances; a romantic moment), about the use of female sanitary pads in India. Your first inclination on viewing this story is another boring Indian family going through issues. Wrong! When you begin to discover it's about males dealing w/the female menstrual period which is culturally an extreme no-no; it starts to get interesting, eventually really interesting. Background: At the time this story begins, the 1990s, only about 12% of Indian women used a "sanitary" pad, the rest you ask? Newspapers, leaves, and a continually reused rag washed most likely in unsanitary H2O. So, a husband buys pads for 55 Rupees which the wife refuses to use in part because their high cost is beyond their low income level. The husband as a low education, hands-on laborer, decides to make some for his wife. That's when the fireworks begins. The subject is a culturally stigmatized superstitious taboo - mildly put. He's shamed, ostracized beyond belief as he asks questions, and researches. His goal is to build a machine to make them for 2 Rupees all "for the safety of women". Read only after seeing: It took him six years. Introduced his low cost pad maker to thousands of villages. Hired abused, cast out, unemployed women (many beggars, prostitutes) to make & distribute the pads. Has exported his machine to 29 poor countries. Named Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People" in the world. Guest speaker at the UN & TED.

Real story of an Indian making Sanitary Pads at affordable price for Poor and underprivileged ladies. Its a power packed movie with a spice of emotions. Akshay Kumar is a real super star and delivers at par as always. A Must watch.

After watching this movie I feel don't know what to say. Too many things in my mind not finding the word to express.

With such important subjects each time Akshay Kumar is trying to be a socially committed actor but most of them always stay short of being really effective. Here also the subject is important in the bigoted Indian society but the execution is just ok. The film lacks proper focus and the issue is still not addressed properly keeping it taboo and only reachable to an extent. The narrative is not at all consistent and the first half drags so much without making any point. But the subject and its reality are so powerful that when the film works it hits them hard. How the society reacts at each point just makes me ashamed of my country and even though I haven't directly seen such situations or people I can't deny the probability of such occurrences. Even though the subject is kind of approached superficially the importance and social effect of the film that can be felt through some of the moments in the film make it worth it.