Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire may be the favourite at the Oscars, but Smile Pinki, a short documentary on an Indian girl born with a cleft lip, is also in the race for a trophy. 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.
And an interview with he film’s producer and directer, Megan Mylan (photo right), in The Indian Express:
“Whenever I go to a new place I make it a point to do some research. I learnt to do a lot of namaste and make eye contact because these people had never seen a camera or a foreigner. I was helped by a friend and social worker Nandini Rajwade, who translated everything for me,” explains Mylan, who shot the film in Mirzapur in UP over a three-week schedule in March 2007 and in a Government hotel in Varanasi. “I survived on packed rajma chawal. Each day we would travel two hours from our five-star hotel in Varanasi to the village. We did not want to be a burden on the villagers by staying with them,” she explains. More:
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