Smile Pinki

Smile Pinki

2008 · 39m

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Directed by Megan Mylan

Synopsis

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.

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Released
31 December 2008
Runtime
39m
Director
Megan Mylan
Countries
United States of America
Production
HBO Documentary Films

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