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Akshay Kumar's Padman to be screened at Tokyo International Film Festival

| @indiablooms | Oct 11, 2018, at 05:24 pm

Mumbai, Oct 11 (IBNS): Actor Akshay Kumar starrer Hindi film Padman will be screened at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival, which will begin in the last week of October.

Film critic Taran Adarsh tweeted a poster of the film saying, "#PadMan to be screened at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival... Here's the poster for the local audiences in Japan:"

Apart from Akshay, the film stars Radhika Apte and Sonam Kapoor in the lead roles.

R Balki directorial film Padman is a story of Tamil Nadu-based social activist Arunachalam Muruganantham, who created a low-cost sanitary napkins machine.

Akshay and his wife Twinkle Khanna, who is an actress-designer-author, are the producers of the film.

Padman had released in India on Feb 9.

The 31st Tokyo International Film Festival will run from Oct 25 to Nov 3.

Image: twitter.com/taran_adarsh

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