There is an intentional effort of relevance about the title Smile Pinki.  The 39 minute documentary directed by Megan Mylan, talks about Pinki, a poor girl in rural India and several other children who undergoes a free surgery to correct their cleft lip. More than a creative piece the documentary can be considered as a small attempt to appreciate the charity works carried out by the members of the G.S. Memorial Hospital to help out the children living with severe cleft lip difficulties.

In our country approximately thirty five thousand children are born with cleft lips and most of them who suffer from this deformity are from economically crippled section. Though this malady can be easily corrected through a simple surgery, most of them are not aware of it. This film takes us to the lives of such children who are thrown into isolation and alienation and about those people who are lending a hand to help the children to overcome the deformity.

Pinki is a five-year-old girl from one of the poorest families in a village in the Mirzapur District, with a cleft lip. Pinki never knew it just need one simple surgery to wipe away the difficulties she went through until she met  Pankaj, a social worker who came to her village to assemble patients  to visit the hospital in Varanasi , where free surgery is done for all those who are born with cleft lip.

The documentary travel along with the protagonist as the surgery transforms her life to a world of joy and hope from the world of isolation and separation.As the documentary was an attempt to talk about the children with cleft lip and the hospital where free surgery is done to correct the cleft lip, the film did  succeed in gaining the attention of the people by focusing on one particular theme. The music used in the film brings the audience also with the mood of the film and the narration of the film from the desperate Pinki to the smiling Pinki makes the audience also smile.