A painfully awkward, overweight teenager reclaims her right to happiness and self-worth by running against a pretty, popular queen bee in the school election.
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 how to handle the physical, emotional and social changes happening in her life. In school, she is a backbencher 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 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 teachers, school crushes, and Shammi Kapoor 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.—UTV Motion Pictures
"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.
Gippi (Gurpreet) is a 14-year-old girl who lives in Shimla with her mother Pappi (Divya Dutta) and little brother Booboo. She is overweight and awkward and doesn't know how to handle the physical, emotional, and social changes adolescence brings. In school she is a back-bench student and is constantly bullied by the popular queen-bee Shamira and at home, she's trying to figure out how to deal with living in a broken home. Papp is divorced & Gippi's dad is getting married again & is making a song & dance of the whole thing & rubbing it in Pappi's face.
Shamira befriends the newest chocolate candy in class by the name of Kabir. Gippi despises Shamira as she is constantly in her face & leaves no opportunity to make fun of her at every available instance.
In the middle of all this chaos, she falls madly in love with an older, brooding heart-breaker named Arjun, whom she meets at her dad's engagement party. Arjun goes to the high school wing of her school. At the party Gippi feels that Arjun is a genuinely nice guy & falls for him. She meets him at school after they come back from the party. She even announces to Shamira that Arjun is her boyfriend. But Arjun refutes this claim & says that he is not Gippi's boyfriend. When her love story comes to a humiliating end, and she is publicly scorned. Kabir tries to stand up for her, but Gippi does not notice his efforts. Gippi decides to take 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 teachers, school crushes, and Shammi Kapoor dances.Gippi is helped by her entourage which includes her brother Booboo, her friend Anita & her boyfriend Ashish (who earlier had a crush on Gippi). They give Gippi a makeover, help her with her studies & even try to get her a boyfriend to boost her image. The efforts are a disaster when Kabir steps in & offers his help. He makes Gippi realize that her biggest asset is that she is like everyone else at school & the students want to vote for someone like themselves & not for someone whom they think is better than them & will rub their faces in it all the time.
Kabir also asks Gippi out to the Christmas party where the results of the election will be announced. At the party, in the loo, Shamira walks up to Gippi & laments that for 3 years she made sacrifices of her personal time so she could build her profile to be head girl of the school. And now, Gippi is set to be head girl, without actually doing or changing anything & maybe not even knowing what it means to be head girl.
GIppi wins the elections. But she realizes that she does not have any inclination to work on school & student issues & that Shamira is actually more suited for the job. She withdraws from the election, giving Shamira the victory. Gippi reunites with her friends & has a party at her home with all of them.
