The film recieved critical acclaims and was nominated for the Academy Awards this year in the Documentary Short Subject category. The film apprehends the lives of women from Hapur district in India, a township not far away from India’s capital city, New Delhi.
The film begins with a few simpering women from the township who are ashamed to define or talk about their periods. Unable to even say the word “period”, we are then introduced to the environment these women live in.
It is grotesque to know in India men call sanitary napkins “Huggies” and “nappies”, and tge 5days 'Test Match' , thus refusing to concede the genuine health issues the women in their families face.
The film further goes on to showcase how the installation of a low-cost pad-making machine helps empower the women in the township, helping them find the courage to sell these pads (called “Fly” pads) to both women and male shopkeepers alike. While one of the women in the film talks about how the machine changed their lives and made them more self-reliant, another makes an observation about the long road ahead to change patriarchal mindsets.
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