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Smile Pinki: story of a girl with cleft lip may win Oscars
Smile Pinki - a 39-minute documentary by American director Megan Mylan - chronicles the story of eight-year-old Pinki's journey from being a social outcast in her village to her acceptance - and even deification - by society.
Smile Pinki is one of the four short documentaries nominated for the Academy Awards. Sponsored by a charity 'smile train' Dr. Singh from Varanasi found and operated on Pinki, to give her her smile back :) India has a backlog of more than a million people waiting with cleft lips and every year 35,000 new patients are born. Dr. Singh himself has done 13000 surgeries since 2004.
Checkout the website and trailer of the movie. Its amazzing !!!
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Glad this movie won the oscar! :)
Watched the movie - no great cinematography, simple Indian instruments, no technical marvel, no fancy stuff, yet the most powerful movie! Deserves the Oscar every bit! MUST WATCH!!! :)
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