Akshay Kumar starrer PadMan’s producer and wife of the actor, Twinkle Khanna, spoke at the Oxford Union on Thursday.

The author and producer talked why she felt the need to describe the story of PadMan and emphasized the significance of menstrual hygiene to deal with the taboo around periods in India.

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Twinkle, earlier, had written the story of entrepreneur Arunachalam Murugunatham, the man who invented the machine to produce cheap sanitary pads, in her book titled ‘The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad’, which has been showcased in the movie.

She believes that the movie will become a revolutionary movement for women in India, while she presented her argument at the Oxford Union and said, “I hope this movie (PadMan) becomes a movement where women are no longer held back or shamed by their biological functions.”

.@mrsfunnybones: I hope this movie becomes a movement: where women are no longer held back or shamed by their biological functions #PadMan #periodpoverty 💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿 pic.twitter.com/88DjTsjQDO

— Oxford Union (@OxfordUnion) January 18, 2018

She addressed the students of the Oxford University and presented her view on failure, as she said, “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.”

.@mrsfunnybones: 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. pic.twitter.com/vWwUKLnImc

— Oxford Union (@OxfordUnion) January 18, 2018

Twinkle also 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.”

She also discussed with Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai that why is it important to end the taboo around menstruation.

Talking about the real-life PadMan, Twinkle 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.”

PadMan which is clashing with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmaavat on January 25, is still a rage among the movie buffs.

Well, it is a great start for the movie even before its release that it became the first ever Indian movie to be discussed at The Oxford Union.