Ankur Singla’s ‘Ghich Pich’ is a wonderful slice of life about three boys in Chandigarh
- Trinity Auditorium
- Aug 7
- 1 min read
Though the central characters are teenagers, this lightly melancholic story is not your average “teen movie”. It’s about three sets of fathers and sons in “those innocent days”. The rest of this review may contain spoilers.
Satyajit Sharma plays the father of a schoolgoer named Anurag (Aryan Singh Rana), and I think many of us may see shades of our father in this man. He lives with his wife and children in Chandigarh. He wants his son to get into a good college in Delhi, and worries that the boy may be slacking off. So he tells Anurag, “No friends, no girls, no TV.” Like many fathers of a certain generation – this film is set in the early 2000s – his concern and worry come out as borderline-tyranny. His wife says that he could have said the same things with love, but the man replies, “[My son] may hate me now but he will thank me one day.” Maybe this is why a teacher tells her students that they should get their report cards signed by their fathers, and not their mothers. Spare the rod, spoil the child. At one point, while Anurag slouches at his study desk, his father literally shoves a rod down the back of his shirt, so that he will sit up straight.
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