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Release StatusReleased
Release Date2008-12-31
Languageen
Runtime39m
Production

HBO Documentary Films

6.6(10)
•2008•39m

Smile Pinki

Overview

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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Smile Pinki (2008) | Cinelio