Smile Pinki cover the story of Pinki, a five year old girl from India who is born in a very poor family and to add to her problems, is born with a cleft lip. Neither Pinki, Nor her parents realized that it would take just a simple surgery to clear her condition. That was until they met with Pankaj who is a social worker who travels throughout the villages to make the people aware and take them to the hospital in Varanasi.
The documentary is kind of fairy tale come true for Pinki who is shunned by the kids due to her condition. Until Pankaj arrived, they were unaware that all it took was a simple, free surgery in the hospital in Varansi to cure the condition.
Director Megan Mylan follows Pankaj as he visits village after village and distributes flyers to make the people aware that the condition, which is caused by prenatal malnutrition problems, is in fact curable. We further see the transformation in the behavior of the kids and parent toward Pinki after the surgery.
To put in simple terms, the documentary is evidence that it doesn’t take big efforts and loads of capital to change the world. Simple, little steps can also do the trick and make someone’s life happy and at least, sustainable.