By Charlotte Webster-
Brilliant author, designer, and former actress, Twinkle Khanna has been invited to speak at The Oxford University tomorrow.
The 43-year-old actor is slated to address the students of the prestigious Oxford University on Thursday where she will showcase her upcoming production, “Padman”.
The film is based on the life of social entrepreneur and activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, who revolutionised sanitary hygiene in rural India 20 years ago. the film stars Twinkle’s husband actor Akshay ..
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Also featuring in the sensational film to be screened worldwide on January 25 i is Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor.
Known as Mrs Funnybones, the Bollywood actress and author and proud feminist was invited by Oxford University’s debating society, The Eye Of Media.Com has heard. She is also due to be having a special screening of her upcoming production PadMan starring Akshay Kumar, Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor. PadMan will be the first Indian film to be screened at The Oxford Union.
INSPIRING
Twinkle is an inspiring speaker who will highlight the journey of real life PadMan, social entrepreneur and activist Arunachalam Muruganantham- who invented the low cost sanitary pad machine in India. The respected actress is expected to address the social stigmas and taboo surrounding menstrual hygiene and menstruation in India. Khanna’s acting career took off in 1995 when she was cast by notable actor and politician, Dharamendra Deol, after which she was immediately signed for two more films even before the screening of her first film.
Her first book ,Mrs Funnybones sold over one hundred thousand copies, making her India’s highest-selling female writer of 2015. The talented writer repeated her success in a second book entitled ‘The Legend Of Lakshimi Prasad which sold over 100,000 copies . The successful writer won the outlook award in 2016 for being the most inspiring woman of the year and was honoured with an invitation to be part of ta respected panel at the United Nations , New York on Women’s Entrepreneurship Day.
Oxford University is known for its invitation of prominent guests to give inspiring talks to its bright students. Former guests include former American President(s) Reagan, Nixon, and Carter, Albert Einstein, former and late UK prime minister, Sir Winston Churchill, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa, Sir Elton John,, Michael Jackson, and many others..
The film is based on a short story from her book ‘The Legends of Lakshmi Prasad’. In an interview with BBC World on menstrual hygiene, she said; “awareness, education and access to sanitary pads are the three things that would help in putting an end to period taboos. To what I see as nothing less than a tragedy that 20 per cent of our school girls drop out of school when they start menstruating because they are unable to get access to sanitary pads or menstrual cups and have to rely on leaking pieces of cloth.” We hope PadMan initiates conversations and a positive change we really require in the 21st century Indian society.