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With the onset of 2018, Bollywood is gearing up for the first box office battle. This time Akshay Kumar's Pad Man will lock horns with Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Padmaavat, and all eyes are on this big box-office clash. After countless controversies, Bhansali decided to release the period drama on January 25, despite stiff compeition from Pad Man. While the makers of Padmaavat have remained tight-lipped about the box-office clash, Pad Man producer Twinkle Khanna has this to say about both the films releasing on the same day. Twinkle, who has turned producer with R Balki's directorial venture, says that despite the clash, Pad Man is not ready to move to another date, and will take Padmaavat head on. "It's not pleasant for both (the parties) and will impact both. But they have also been through enough of their own hurdles. But I wish they would have come a week earlier or a week after us preferably. I am sure Mr (Sanjay Leela) Bhansali has made a wonde...

Earlier today Akshay Kumar released the trailer of his upcoming film PadMan. The trailer has already garnered more than a million views on YouTube in just six hours and has been getting rave reviews from all across web. Akshay Kumar, in particular, is being praised for taking up such characters as well as films. In the film he is playing the role of a "superhero" called PadMan, who revolutionarised the concept of menstrual hygiene in rural India by creating a low-cost sanitary napkins machine. This idea seems intriguing and unconventional for celluloid imagine if this happened in real life? Well it actually did... For those unaware, PadMan is based on the book called The Legend Of Lakshmi Prasad written by Twinkle Khanna, which was inspired from the life and antics of Arunachalam Muruganantham. Born in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Arunachalam Muruganantham is the man who actually wore a sanitary pad to prove his point. A school dropout, Muruganatham had a simple drea...