Smile Pinki (2008)
Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until she met Pankaj, a social worker traveling from village to village gathering patients to go to hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year. This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist journey to a dream smile from isolation and shame.
- Date of release
- 2008-12-31
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (10)
- Runtime
- 39m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Megan Mylan
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)
Smile Pinki is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Megan Mylan which won the 81st Academy Award for Best Documentary. The film depicts the story of Pinki and Ghutaru, two children in rural India who receive corrective surgery for cleft lips.
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