India Pad Man sits in the top 9% of India films on this catalog — ranked #173 of 1,983 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #173 of 1,983 India films indexed here (91st percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.1 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Comedy productions specifically: #52 of 648 (top 8%).
Audience Engagement
186 audience reviews — more than 96% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 89th percentile among India films.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Pad Man. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Comedy + Drama in India
292 India titles in our catalog blend the Comedy and Drama genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Pad Man itself).
Other Titles From KriArj Entertainment
The 2017–2019 India Window
Among 334 India films we catalog from this window, Pad Man places #39 — near the top of its class.
The 2010s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in India, 919 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Pad Man premiered alongside 103 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 2h 20m runtime, production spent $71K per minute on screen and earned $164K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 103 other India films in 2018.
The 1467th India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Pad Man, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- taboo · 4
- invention · 2
- menstruation · 2
- dramedy · 1
- social awareness · 1
- based on short story · 20
- based on true story · 98
- superhero · 80
- biography · 75
- village · 46
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Production Companies | KriArj Entertainment, Hari Om Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Films India |
| Runtime | 2h 20m |
| Release Date | February 9, 2018 |
| IMDb | tt7218518 |