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Smile Pinki

Smile Pinki

2008Short⏱️ 39m
DocumentaryShort
⭐ 7.8
IMDB Rating
472 votes

A real-world fairy-tale about the journey of Pinki and Ghutaru, two children in rural India whose lives are forever changed by a simple surgery they never imagined possible.

Director
Megan Mylan
Writers
N/A
Stars
Anti Chauhan, Ghutaru Chauhan, Virendra Kumar Das
Release Date
June 17, 2008
Language
Bhojpuri, Hindi
Country
United States
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Wins
🎯 4
Nominations
πŸ’¬ 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

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Anti Chauhan
as Self
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Ghutaru Chauhan
as Self
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Virendra Kumar Das
as Self
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Ravi Anand Manya
as Self
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Nirmala Pal
as Self
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Pooja Pal
as Self
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Surendar Pal
as Self
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Lalchand Sankar
as Self
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Manoj Sharma
as Self
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Shruti Shukla
as Self

🎬 Technical Specs

Sound
Stereo
Color
Color
Filming Location
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Production
HBO Documentary Films, Principe Productions, Smile Train

🏷️ Keywords

villagecleft lipsurgeryhospitalindia

🎯 Categories

DocumentaryShort

⭐ Featured Review

lips of sorrow and joy
by lee_eisenberg β€’ 2017-02-24
10/10

"Megan Mylan's Oscar-winning "Smile Pinki" focuses on a girl with a cleft lip in one of the poorest parts of India, and how a social worker gathers people to go to a hospital to have their cleft lips treated. Part of what we get to see in the documentary is the traditions in the girl's village, and how the townspeople think that her cleft lip resulted from an eclipse. In an era when it's possible to get cleft lips treated, I hate to think how it must have been for people before it was possible. As shown in the documentary, Pinki had gotten ostracized in her village beca..."

πŸ“– Synopsis

A real-world fairy-tale about the journey of Pinki and Ghutaru, two children in rural India whose lives are forever changed by a simple surgery they never imagined possible.