The Oscar Award 2019 (Academy Award 2019), which is considered to be the world's most respected film in the world, was held in Los Angeles, USA today. This year, in the awards, an Indian documentary carried out the flags of success. This film tells the fame of the women of Kathikhada village of Hapur. Documentary film period. End of Sentence won the award in the Short Subject Documentary category.
About a couple of years ago, some women belonging to a non-profit organization in Uttar Pradesh's small district Hapur had a dream. The dream was to make rural women aware of using sanitary pads during menstruation. Some women associated with Kathikheda, about seven km from the district headquarters, thought to start this journey from their village.


For this, a small manufacturing unit was established in the village. In the beginning, after a few difficulties, when the journey went ahead, their enthusiasm in the world was echoed. Hapud's two daughters also joined the US to attend the Oscars.

Social organization Action India planned to launch Sanitary Pad manufacturing unit under the banner of Sabla Committee in Kathikheda in 2017. Suman associated with the organization started training women in his village for this.

At first, rural women showed interest in talking about it. After that the problem was how the family would be celebrated. Constitute a group of seven women and told the family that there are some products related to children and to earn a little money to complete the second expenditure along with studies. After this, the pad manufacturing unit started with the assistance of Action India in a small room of the village.

In this, 600 pads are made per day, in which the assistants of the work earn about two and a half thousand rupees a month. Of these, Rakhi has graduated to graduation. They say that it was very embarrassing to tell the householders first.

In the village, women used to talk less about this, but we knew that the use of sanitary pads is important. Preity has also written and she continued to make awareness about this work with other women as well.

Over time, the thinking of the men of the village changed, and they began to make necessary cooperation on their behalf. Now in this group, Sneh, Arshi, Rukhsana, Sushma and Nishu are working. Nishu is now a Class 11 student. He is attached to this work right now. Nishu says that he feels good when people talk about this committee and its work.

Film shooting in the village

Some time ago the unit of some people who made the film with the people of Action India Institute came. The women and women associated with the committee say that working for them in the film was absolutely unique. The villagers were also surprised. When period The documentary film, End of Sentence, was being shot, so nobody realized that it would be in the whole world. After that it was chosen for the Oscars. After that people started coming to the village, the villagers are happy. A young Ankit says that he is happy that the daughters of his village have illuminated the name of the entire area.

This journey is very difficult

Shabana, the team leader of the district's district, says that its journey has been very difficult. When the unit was set up in the village, some people objected greatly. It was also said that innocent women of the village are being seduced. Many times it seemed that some other village should be turned, but the people of the village were celebrated with the help of Suman.

To explain to women, it was used to conceal and hide. When the film making unit approached the village, it was shot twice for 15-15 days in 2017. The people of the village were surprised by the arrival of foreign origin. Now that there is so much talk about the film, most people are happy.