Smile Pinki
MovieTitle | Smile Pinki |
User score | 6.7 |
Release date | Dec 31, 2008 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Megan Mylan |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | HBO Documentary Films |
Run time | 39 min. |
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.