With the spotlight now on Pinki, the protagonist of Oscar-winning documentary "Smile Pinki", her daily-wage-earner father says he will work hard to ensure that her dream of becoming a doctor comes true besides spreading the message that a girl child is a blessing.
Though it is tough ask for Rajender Sonkar, who says he earns very little to meet his ends as a wage earner, there is this belief in him that his daughter's future will be bright.
"It was her destiny to go to America. Now she wants to become a doctor. She says 'bapu, I will become a doctor and operate other children with cleft-lip'. I want her to get educated," Sonkar told PTI.
Pinki, born with a cleft-lip and declared a social outcast in Rampur Dhabai village in Uttar Pradesh's Mirzapur district, got a new lease of life after a free surgery by Dr Subodh Kumar Singh.
Her transformation from a social outcast to a normal child was captured on film by American moviemaker Megan Mylan. Pinki's fame has brought some changes in Sonkar's attitude as well. "I will now tell the villagers that a girl child is a blessing. See what my daughter has done. I went to America and met so many important people because of her," he said.
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