REVIEW
Director: Abhishek Saxena
Star Cast: Sharib Hashmi, Jyotii Sethi, Inaamulhaq
Genre: Drama
Rating: **
Lackadaisical!
Even while Akshay Kumar is coming up with his tribute to P.M. Narendra Modi’s Swachata Campaign with ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ and ‘Padman’, the makers of the film have beaten him in his game. Phullu (Sharib Hashmi), narrates the tale of one such individual, who is keen to educate rural women about the importance of menstrual hygiene. After a trip to the city to seek employment ,Phullu is more determined to find a way to make sanitary pads to alleviate the misery of the village women. After his marriage, Phullu learns about menstruation and how the village women, who are even unaware about sanitary pads, use cloth and often catch infection but stick to the age old method of using cloth instead of sanitary pads and strives to learn the process of manufacturing them. Phullu succeeds and comes to his village but is scoffed at by the women
Plus Points:
The message the film drives home is simple: women should have access to affordable sanitary pads.. Sharib Hashmi gets into the skin of his character as Phullu with effortless ease,but when you compare his performance in Filmistan earlier, he only cuts a sorry figure with this attempt.
Minus Points:
Jyoti Sethi is just passable. The trouble with the film is that though the story is interesting, the screenplay is lackadaisical.
By Jyothi Venkatesh
