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Smile Pinki

Smile Pinki

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 31, 2008

Runtime

0h 39m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

67%

Original Title

Smile Pinki

Production Companies

HBO Documentary Films

Director

Megan Mylan

Description

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.