The following is a brief introduction to the film. There are many spoilers in the article. You can watch it again after the movie if you mind. Welcome everyone to discuss with us.
Based on the true story of Indian grassroots entrepreneur Muruganantham, The Partner of India tells the story of an ordinary Indian rural man lakshmi, who sought a way to produce low-priced sanitary products in order to change his wife Apt's inability to use safe and healthy sanitary products during the physiological period, and finally created a story to change the health problems of all Indian women except products.
In reality, Indian grassroots entrepreneur Muruganantham is a hand-knitter. /kloc-After his father died at the age of 0/4, he was forced to drop out of school to earn money to support his family. I have lived in poverty for many years and have done a lot of work-machine tool operator, farm worker, welder and sales agent. My income is just a living.
At the age of 36, Muruganantham married his wife. After marriage, he found that his wife used dirty rags during her physiological period because she could not afford sanitary napkins. This dirty rag will cause huge health problems, some women will be infected, some women will be infertile and even lose their lives.
In order to change the status quo, Muruganantham made pads with cotton and wool for his wife to experience, but it didn't work. In order to shorten the experiment period, he asked the female medical students around him to carry out the experiment, but the subject was not accepted by the world and no one was willing to help him.
In order to persist in the experiment, he simulated the experiment with airbags and rubber tubes, but the experiment was not successful, and the secular eyes could not let him continue, so his wife divorced him. However, the failure of career and family did not crush him. Two years later, he extracted cellulose from pine bark to make pads, and completed the selection of materials. Two years later, he invented a cheap and easy-to-use pad production machine. A year later, he spread this machine to 27 of 29 states in India, which helped Indian women solve their health problems and promoted employment and development in India, becoming one of the most influential people in the world in 20 14.
At the end of the story, Muruganantham's wife lives with him again, and this legend comes to a perfect end.
The legendary story of Muruganantham was basically restored in "Indian Partner", but compared with the legendary story, the film presented me with a deeper and more shocking image. India has a small building with a terrace outside. Whenever a woman is in her physiological period, she sleeps outside the terrace. No matter whether she is a newly-grown child or an old man, whether it is hot or cold outside, she can't move or do anything. Sleeping outside for five days a month is disrespectful to women, because Indian culture has serious discrimination and fear of physiological period. However, we are all born and raised by our mothers. Shouldn't we show more respect to women?
In the movie, the man saw his wife living on the terrace for the first time and wanted to ask, but the whole family stopped him. The second time he tried to help his wife, she was called meddling. After the man failed in the experiment of pad, his wife thought his behavior was unreasonable. The man tried to ask for more help, but found his own sister to try the mat, but the response was that he no longer contacted each other. He found a young girl who just grew up to do the experiment, but she was branded as a "pervert".
I still remember the scene that pushed the contradiction in the film to a climax. The man made a device to do the experiment because he had no subject, but the experiment failed. People in the village surrounded him under a tree, and his wife felt humiliated and wanted to leave him. The man's mother said, "I can prove that the child is possessed by a ghost. He is crazy. I witnessed his change with my own eyes. You can do whatever you want with him. He is hopeless. "
How can a mother let her children be disposed of? How can she prove to outsiders that her child is hopeless? If a child does things that his closest wife and family can't understand, who can understand him?
All this comes from the backwardness of culture and thought. When we are in a feudal society, how difficult is it for us to do something to change the status quo? The man in the movie went to the point of no return, and all the disadvantages were extreme, but in the end, the man succeeded. He met advanced culture, advanced ideas and knowledgeable partners. They made products, changed society and gained profits.
Leonardo da vinci was probably the first person to put forward Heliocentrism, but he did not publish it but recorded it in the manuscript, probably because the society didn't recognize it at that time, and later facts also proved the power of society. After Copernicus put forward Heliocentrism, he was persecuted by the church and died. In the feudal past, people were more willing to accept what they accepted, but they often did not accept what overthrew reality. Even if he was right, the development of things was the survival of the fittest, and gold was bound to shine. Whether it's Copernicus' Heliocentrism, Indian Pad Man, the Internet or the current hot VR, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things and so on. Things that develop rapidly will not wait for us to understand before they develop. Opportunities will only be reserved for those who are prepared.
Let go of your immediate troubles and try to do the right thing, and everything will be fine.