Pad Man is inspiring by the life of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a rural welder who created a sanitary pad revolution in India by inventing a machine to make low-cost sanitary pads 20 years ago.
Arunachalam's story has inspired several other Pad Girls and Pad Boys in other countries and continents such as Africa, who have all played their part to try and improve menstrual hygiene in their local communities and beyond...