While most of the actors failed to impress us, 2017 has been a golden year for Akshay Kumar. From ‘Jolly LLB2’ to ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’, Khiladi ruled the box office.
And 2018 will be one hell of a year as well for Akshay who is all set to entertain us with three films. The actor will start the year with R Balki’s ‘Padman’ which has already created a lot of buzz in the town. All set to hit the screens on 26th January 2018, the film also stars Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor in vital roles.
The trailer of the film which was released earlier has been hailed and cheered.
Produced by Twinkle Khanna’s production house Mrs Funnybones Movies, it is one of the much awaited films of 2018. The makers have now unveiled a new poster of the movie that has millions of stories to tell.
Akshay took to Twitter and shared the poster, “What it takes to be #PadMan! Get to know this Republic Day, 26.01.18 And today don’t forget to catch me with the real Pad Man, @murugaofficial LIVE on my Facebook page at 12 noon IIT Bombay’s Mood Indigo! @PadManTheFilm @SonyPicsIndia@kriarj #RBalki”
What it takes to be #PadMan! Get to know this Republic Day, 26.01.18
And today don’t forget to catch me with the real Pad Man, @murugaofficial LIVE on my Facebook page at 12 noon IIT Bombay’s Mood Indigo!@PadManTheFilm @SonyPicsIndia @kriarj #RBalki pic.twitter.com/ekVbMRNVwS
— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) December 22, 2017
Recently at the song launch, Akshay said, “With Toilet: Ek Prem Katha we had shown it (film) on Doordarshan channel, the government is also doing a good job by taking the film in a pen-drive and showing it in villages so that more people can see the film and understand it. We will do something similar for PadMan. Our aim is not to earn money through the film but it should reach more people, more places where it is needed. We will also take the help of the government.”
Twinkle, who has done all the research work of the film and came up with this concept, said, “We would want the film to be shown to school girls and principals, so it penetrates where it has to. At least we are hoping a conversation starts where the same girls, who can’t afford a sanitary pad, would say to their parents that we don’t need fairness creams, we need sanitary pads so that we can go to schools.”
PadMan is a real-life story that clearly states that you need a fighter to achieve any freedom.