PadMan box office collection day 1: Akshay Kumar’s film all set for an impressive opening

PadMan has a tough task on hand. The Akshay Kumar and Radhika Apte film aims to break the taboo that surrounds menstruation and sanitary napkins. Akshay plays the titular PadMan in this R Balki directorial, based on Arunachalam Muruganantham, a Coimbatore native who invented a low-cost sanitary napkin producing machine. The film takes much of its plot from a short story from writer and Akshay Kumar’s wife Twinkle Khanna’s book The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad. Twinkle has also co-produced the film.

In a conversation with indianexpress.com, trade analyst Girish Johar had said that PadMan is eyeing a collection of Rs 13-Rs 14 crore on Day 1. He also added that in the opening weekend, the Akshay Kumar film could garner as much as Rs 50 crore.

However, Padmaavat is still in theaters and for a film that unintentionally inspired a lot of controversy and even death threats, arson, and vandalism, the Sanjay Leela Bhansali film has had a peaceful run at the box office for quite some time, not to mention a moolah-laden one. It would certainly be a considerable rival to Akshay Kumar’s PadMan.