Gippi Movie Reviews

If you’re a loud person like me, then I suggest you pick up some friends and go and watch Gippi in a theatre. Otherwise, buy the DVD later but you will miss some great surround sound! It really is a great movie and I think the 11-21 year olds will love it.

TAARE ZAMEEN PAR. STANLEY KA DABBA. CHILLAR PARTY... Several prominent film-makers have made films that transport you to your early days. Now Karan Johar takes you back to your teenage years with GIPPI, directed by first-timer Sonam Nair. While this is Karan/Dharma's first film with a lady director, it also marks the production house's foray at narrating a story minus 'stars'. The focus, obviously, is on kids here, but let me add

A jaado ki Jhappi for GIPPI! Hip Hip Hurray! I think I am going over-the-top, but then GIPPI is a film that is so well crafted, well enacted with an overall run time of 97 minutes that makes it crisp and to the point. No unnecessary lengthening of plot with a sub-plot woven in between which sometimes take away from a bright subject. GIPPI is delectably served. Not only the girls, but also boys of every age will love it. Moreover, parents are going

Growing old is compulsory but growing up is optional.. well Dharama Productions this time take the optional route with this sweet little charmer of a film where the focus is on growing up and being yourself a 'star' in your own world. 'Yahoo'.. this ode to the spirit of Shammi Kapoor is smartly and convincingly done by Sonam Nair in her first outing as a director where she tells us the story with a sweet little enthusiasm without becoming saccharine

Some films target the funny bone. Some films aim straight for the tear ducts. Some films set their sights on the heart and comfortably make their place there. Gippi is that kind of film. Debutant director Sonam Nair has said that Karan Johar agreed to produce Gippi because it reminded him of his own childhood. We all have been Gippi at some point in our growing-up years. Unsure and awkward, unsettled by the strange changes in our bodies

She's a typical 14-year-old, hungering for junk food and caring-a-damn about her unwaxed legs and unplucked eyebrows. She's no topper. Far from a head-turner. She's Gippi (Riya), a gregarious, gol-matol gal. The bindaas backbencher, who doesn't sweat over low scores in class, or being overweight with mass. Damn the parlours, beauty queens, gossip gals and fashion magazines, these aren't her favourite subjects

Gippi has a 14-year-old school-going girl as its protagonist. This is an age of classroom gossip, sex education in schools, finding that first love, sibling rivalry and revelry and attempting forbidden things with friends. Director Sonam Nair summarizes all that quite sweetly and skillfully in her first film. Gurpreet Kaur (Riya Vij) aka Gippi lives with her mother (Divya Dutta) and brother Booboo (Arbaaz Kadwani) in Shimla. She is an overweight

Overall, a simple story that stays pre-pubescent and doesn’t quite grow into the high-school of stories.

This coming-of-age teen comedy is the cutest film you’ll watch this year. You’d want to do pinch the cheeks of the person sitting next to you.

Review: Meet Gurpreet, your regular bubbly 14-year-old school-going girl. She’s no child prodigy, doesn’t possess magical powers nor is......

Coming of age is a genre that has been often explored by film makers. That adolescent pre-puberty phase where you look at yourself in the mirror, magnify every single flaw and antagonise about the years to come has been the storyline of many teenage dramas and TV shows. Sonam Nair’s Gippi however is the tale of a 14-year-old girl who is the butt of every joke and is ridiculed for her full figure and lack of being socially popular with her peers

Class 9. You're fat. You're insecure. You think you can dance. But you trip and fall. A lot. The mirror is your best friend. Time stands still when you're in front of it. The reflection is your world. Only when you look away does time fast forward to the present and you feel like a fool. Meanwhile your other best friend is overtaking you in the significant other department. And she's the loser. But she's your friend. Does that make you a loser? Hmm.

Yippee, it’s Gippi! Sadly, that isn’t the reaction that this well-intentioned but uneven film is likely to elicit. A low budget release from Dharma Productions is certainly news. It isn’t news, however, when a film about growing up isn’t quite all that grown up. For all its attempts to look and feel different from the run-of-the-mill, Gippi is pretty obviously not the ultimate film about adolescence. But there is no denying that it is a warm-hearted film

Karan Johar is getting personal and I’m lovin’ it. Last week he gave us a queer peek into Bollywood bedrooms, a reality he should be familiar with. He’d been there before, of course. But his last outing, Dostana, was juvenile. His second comment, in Bombay Talkies’ Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh, was harsher, a punch in the stomach that left most of us winded. This week he takes us back to his childhood, to a story he’s narrated in interesting installments

Her name is Gippi. Her mom is called Pappi, and she has a brother named Booboo. Sonam Nair's debut directorial feature underlines the cute quotient right at the outset with its character names. Gippi is a little tribute to growing up, and the film takes an indulgent look at the wonder years through the story of a 14-year-old. Riya Vij is cast in the title role of Gippi, a pleasantly plump teenager battling the bulge and coming to terms with all the changes

The unconfident, plump teenage girl Gippi is dealing with regular issues of growing chest size, bordering menstruation, and lack of popularity at school, a high school bitch and a nonexistent love life. Quaintly satiated, the girl lives with her brother Booboo and single mother. Added to the age specific problems, she is dealing with her father’s impending marriage to a foreigner. Disheartened by lover, denounced by friends, unpopular and insanely stupid

For all its attempts to look and feel different from the run-of-the-mill, Gippi is pretty obviously not the ultimate film about adolescence.

Riya Vij is simply adorable as Gippi and there is an earnestness and confidence visible on screen which is pretty commendable for a first timer.

School can be a difficult place if you're overweight, awkward, not particularly bright, or clumsy on the sports field. Gurpreet Kaur, the 14-year-old protagonist of Gippi (Riya Vij), ticks all the boxes. She's routinely taunted by the mean girl in class, ignored by all the popular kids, and can barely squeeze into her uniform. An unlikely friendship with the school jock (Taaha Shah) ends embarrassingly for Gippi, and in a weak moment she even accepts

At the outset, 'Gippi' promises to be a coming of age film, dealing with the issues of a teenager. Gurpreet Kaur (Riya Vij) lives with her mother (Divya Dutta) and brother Booboo (Arbaz Kadwani). Life seems idyllic as Gippi dances to Shammi Kapoor tunes and her mother indulges her with new clothes and pakodas. But Gippi is overweight, clumsy and bullied by a super talented girl Shamira (Jayati Modi) in the school. Good enough. But apart from

Bollywood's awakening to the age of teens, and the in-between individuals who live in this zone, is a fairly new thing. Gippi takes the genre further down the road with its 14-year-old protagonist, more tween than teen. Gippi is roly poly, likes jiving to Shammi Kapoor songs, and thinks nothing of snacking between meal-times. She keeps her mom in good humour, fights with her younger brother Booboo, and is happy with her best friend. Then, like all teenagers

It’s nice for Gippi to be saying what it does. That fat and frumpy is not bad. That it is quite all right to be who you are, and not anyone else. That winning is not everything. But it would have been nicer if it had been said in a newer, fresher way.