• Muruganantham wanted to provide a clean, low-cost sanitary pad for his wife after discovering that she used dirty unhygienic rags
• He experimented by making pads out of cotton, which did not work
• He used his experiments on his wife and sisters to check if his indigenous pads were effective but they refused to continue using them after a few trials
• Muruganantham approached female medical students to try out his product, but they were shy and refused
• He then decided to wear the sanitary pad himself
• Muruganantham went around with a pad in his underwear and a bottle filled with animal blood, which would squeeze out the blood on to the pad at regular intervals
• His neighbours started calling him a ‘pervert’ and his wife decided to leave him hoping it would bring him back to his senses, and even served him a divorce notice
• After 2 years of research and findings, Muruganantham figured out how to procure the exact material he needed and the process to manufacture a good quality sanitary pad at home
• Muruganantham’s low-cost sanitary pad making machines are now sold across India and are even being procured internationally
• In 2014 Time magazine featured him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world.

Quirky, emotional, life-affirming, inspirational with a ‘true story’ tag – Muruganantham’s story has all the ingredients to make for an interesting Bollywood money-spinner. And with reports of Akshay Kumar fronting it, you can bet this off-beat real life saga will have enough mass-appeal.

For now, it’s over to Twinkle Khanna and director R Balki to make this film as extraordinary as the menstrual man who inspired it.