| Gippi (2013) Country: India Language: Hindi Year: 2013 Color/BW: COLOR Category: Feature Film Genre: Comedy, Drama
Description Gippi is a 14 year old girl who lives in Simla with her mother Pappi and little brother Booboo. She is overweight and awkward and doesn't know hot to handle the physical, emotional and social changes happening in her life. In school, she is a back-bencher and is constantly bullied by the popular queen-bee Shamira. At home, she's trying to figure out how to deal with living in a broken home. In the middle of all this chaos, she falls madly in love with an older, brooding heartbreaker. When her love story comes to a humiliating end, and she is publicly scorned, she decides to take her life in her life in her hands and accepts Shamira's challenge to stand against her in the school elections.
Whatever the final outcome might be, Gippi makes sure she has a great time in the journey, filling it with delicious desserts, funny teacher's, school crushes, and Shammi Kappor dances. Gippi is a coming-of-age story of an ordinary, overweight girl, who, through the course of the film learns to love herself for exactly who she is. it is also a tale of an underdog, who picks herself up from nothing and finds herself at the top of her own little world.
Cast: Riya Vij, Divya Dutta, Doorva Tripathi, Arbaz Kadwani, Jayati Modi, Taaha Shah, Mrinal Chawla, Aditya Deshpande |
