Here’s Why Bill Gates Found ‘Toilet: Ek Prem Katha’ Inspiring
Bill Gates listed down seven tweets that inspiring him in 2017 and made him more hopeful for the coming year.
Looking back at the year that was, Bill Gates listed down seven tweets from around the world that he found “inspiring” in what he called a “tough year”. The philanthropist and business mogul named Akshay Kumar’s Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, a film about sanitation in rural villages in India, among them.
In a series of tweets, Gates wrote about the tweets that made 2017 “better” and made him more “hopeful” for the new year.
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, directed by Shree Narayan Singh and having Akshay Kumar and Bhumi Pednekar in the lead roles, is based on the age-old issue of open defecation and methods that can be adopted to curb it.
The film is a love story revolving around the problem of open defecation in India and also promotes Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cleanliness initiative - Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
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