This morning we got the sad news that Rima Das' Village Rockstars had crashed out of the Oscar race. But it will be too early to lose hope. A film on Indian pad man, Arunachalam Muruganathan has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards 2018. Before you get your hopes up thinking it's Akshay Kumar's Pad Man which was based on Muruganathan's invention, let us tell you we aren't talking about it. It is a documentary called Period. End of Sentence that has been selected in the Documentary Short Subject Category for Oscars 2019. It speaks about the stigma attached to menstruation in India and the work Arunachalam has done to fight it. The documentary has been directed by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi and producer Guneet Monga has co-produced the film. (ALso read: After Pad Man, Twinkle Khanna backs another film on menstruation titled the First Period)
Guneet exclaimed on Instagram about the selection saying,
The film is nearly 26-minutes long and talks about the women from Harpur, a place in India, and their reaction to a pad machine being installed in their village.
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