Actor-turned-writer Twinkle Khanna's book 'The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad' contained four stories, one of which was named 'The Sanitary Man of Sacred Land'. The author would have had put an end to the story when Padman Arunachalam Muruganantham mistook her for actor Raveena Tandon, if it was not her 'greed' for telling a good story.  Khanna based 'The Sanitary Man of Sacred Land', one of the four stories in the book, on Tamil Nadu-based Muruganantham, who created affordable sanitary napkins for the women of his village.

According to Khanna, the activist mistook her as Tandon while giving his nod to write the story. "He looked at me and mistook me for Raveena Tandon. At that point, I didn't want to write his story but my greed was so much that I overcame that slight," she quipped during a discussion on her recently released book, "Welcome To Paradise", here at Sunder Nursery on Sunday. She later produced the 2018 film 'Pad Man', a fictionalised account of Muruganantham's life which starred her husband actor Akshay Kumar in the lead. Fresh from completing a master's programme in fiction writing from London's Goldsmith College, Khanna said it is fiction that makes the "truth more palatable". The 50-year-old drove her point home with an interesting potato analogy.