Twinkle Khanna on her new role as producer

Entrepreneur, writer, mother and wife Twinkle Khanna has now added another hat to her collection.

Her latest duty sees her turn producer for husband Akshay Kumar with the upcoming movie, ‘Padman.’ Her role, she says, “is to put the project together. I got Mr Arunuchalam Muruganantham on board. And now, I want to make sure we do the film efficiently. Which is why I was on the set.”

‘Padman’ is about Muruganantham, who invented cheap sanitary pads for women in his village. The film features Akshay in the lead role with Sonam Kapoor and Radhika Apte for company in a film that hopes to shrug off the stigma around a topic considered taboo, reports DNA India.

Twinkle agrees, “People don’t really want to talk about sanitary pads. Men are hesitant to say ‘periods’. In that sense, I think Padman will cater to a lot of people across the world.”

Films are made to break box-office targets, but Twinkle is expecting a different take away from her film. “Eventually, I hope we can make sanitary pads tax-free. There is already a petition online asking for the same. Because these are things where there shouldn’t be any tax. They are necessities, not luxuries.”

An online petition has already been filed asking the government to waive taxes on sanitary pads. “I think the release of Padman would definitely push the petition through and I am going to positively work on that as well,” she signs off.

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