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While at Oxford Union, Twinkle Khanna said, “I hope this movie becomes a movement where women are no longer held back or shamed for their biological functions.”
PadMan has become the first Indian film to be a topic of discussion at The Oxford Union. Explaining why she chose to address the stigma around menstrual hygiene in her debut production, Twinkle said, “My primary motivation to make a movie on menstruation was to bring awareness to a subject that so far has been tucked away in shadows and like Voldemort, is never mentioned.”
Mrs Funnybones also met with our Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai to discuss why it is important to end the social stigma around menstruation.
Twinkle has successfully made Mr. Arunachalam Muruganantham’s story of revolutionising sanitary hygiene in rural India, into a movie. About that, she said, “He is a man who most people would have perhaps dismissed because he was not fluent in English- but he went on from being a school dropout to an award-winning innovator.”
Addressing the students of Oxford University, Twinkle presented her view on failure. “I would say failure has been my role model. Every time there was an obstacle in my life, I examined it, and invariably it taught me something about myself or the world around me that I didn’t know. To not be afraid to keep leaping is what I’ve always believed in.”
