New Delhi, October 13: She is on her her first visit to India since winning the Oscar award in February this year but Megan Mylan of ‘Smile Pinki’ fame says she always wanted to bring the story and the trophy back to the country.
“I had to come here and bring this little Indian story way back to India and bring the Oscar back to India because this award is a celebration of a charming little girl and the heroic work of an Indian doctor,” Mylan told PTI in an interview.
Mylan won the golden statuette, the ultimate cinematic prize, for her 39-minute film about an eight-year-old girl Pinki Sonkar from a poor rural family near Varanasi.
Pinki’s cleft lip makes her a social outcast in her village but a simple surgery under the Smile Train programme transforms her life magically.
–PTI