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Akshay Kumar Tells Saudi Arabian Audience He Is Preparing Sex Education Film – Red Sea Film Festival
03.12.2022 - 22:59 / deadline.com
Bollywood megastar Akshay Kumar revealed that he is making a feature on the theme of sex education that he hopes to release next spring during an In-Conversation event at Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea International Film Festival on Saturday.
“It’s a very important subject. In a lot of places, it is not there. We have all kinds of subjects we learn in school and sex education is one topic I would like all the schools in the world to have. It’s going to take time to release, it’s going to be April, May,” he said, adding “It’s one of the best films I’ve ever made.”
There is a big Bollywood fanbase in Saudi Arabia and Kumar was met with scenes of near hysteria, with women screaming and the crowd surging forward to snap photos on smartphones as he entered the cinema theatre for the event.
Red Film international programmer Kaleem Aftab, who was moderating the session, had to read the riot act to the audience to get them to sit down.
Popular action and comedy star Kumar has gotten behind social issue films in the past such as the 2017 drama Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, about a man whose wife threatens to divorce him if he does not install a toilet in their house, and the groundbreaking 2018 work Padman, tackling the taboo topic in India of menstruation and lack of access to sanitary products.
“I like to do these sorts of films, social films. It’s not that big a commercial success film but it gives me satisfaction,” he said.
“After Padman, one of my friends told me, ‘My relationship with my daughter has changed. She has opened up so much because we saw this movie together, now she calls me up and says dad, I started my period can you get a sanitary pack for me on the way home from the office’ and that sort of thing.”
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