Akshay Kumar

Actor Akshay Kumar says men should understand the need of menstrual hygiene for the women in their lives. Akshay also featured in Pad Man, which tells a story of social entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham's journey to make affordable sanitary napkins. Directed by R. Balki, Pad Man is based on a short story from Twinkle Khanna's book The Legend Of Lakshmi Prasad. It is a story of how one man came up with a revolutionary method of producing cost-effective sanitary napkins and empowered thousands of women across the country in the process.