Producer Guneet Monga  film Period. End of Sentence –  the film, set in India and dealing with menstruation taboo, took home the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. The Documentary, featuring the real Pad Man Arunachalam Murgunantham, beat Black Sheep, End Game, Lifeboat and A Night At The Garden.

            Period. End of Sentence is about women in India fighting against the deeply rooted stigma of menstruation and delving upon the work of real life Pad Man Arunachalam Muruganantham. Mr Muruganantham inspired the Bollywood film PadMan last year.Directed by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi, the film has been created by The Pad Project, an organisation established by an inspired group of students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher, Melissa Berton. The 26-minute film follows girls and women in Hapur, Uttar Pradesh and their experience with the installation of a pad machine in their village.

LEARNING WITH TIMES

Bhanu Athaiya became the first Indian to win an Academy Award in 1983, for designing the costumes for Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi.

Satyajit Ray became the first Indian to receive an Honorary Academy Award in 1992.

Gulzar became the first Indian lyricist to receive an Academy Award for penning Jai Ho.

Resul Pookutty: Best Sound Mixing for Slumdog Millionaire.
AR Rahman  for Slumdog Millionaire.