Rinki Kumari, at 14, was a lively student from
the Vaishali district in Bihar, when her education was stopped brutally in its tracks by kala-azar in 2013.
After recovering from kala-azar, marks appeared on Rinki's face two years later. Her
grandmother took her to hospital but even the dermatologist's month-long treatment could not remove her facial scars.
The most recent film to be directly inspired by Madhumati was the hit Bollywood film Om Shanti Om(2007),
which led to the late Bimal Roy's daughter Rinki Bhattacharya accusing it of plagiarism
and threatening legal action against its producers.