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Smile Pinki

Pinki is a five-year old girl in rural India born desperately poor and with a cleft lip. The simple surgery that can cure her is a distant dream until she meets Pankaj
, a social worker traveling village to village gathering patients for a hospital that provides free surgery to thousands each year. Told in a vibrant verite-style, this real-world fairy tale follows its wide-eyed protagonist on a journey from isolation to embrace. In Hindi and Bhojpuri with English subtitles,



Smile Pinki from asg on Vimeo.
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