Ghich Pich is one of the upcoming movies of the drama genre. The film’s plot is set against the backdrop of Chandigarh in 1998 and 1999. The narrative revolves around the intersecting lives of three teenage boys: Gaurav Arora, Gurpreet Singh, and Anurag Bansal. Each is confronted with generational expectations and emotional disconnect with their families. Gaurav, learns a painful family secret with implications for his identity and worldview that creates conflict with his father Rakesh Arora. Gurpreet grapples with his identity as a sensitive Sikh youth who desires to cut his hair for love, a choice opposed by his devout father and representative majority culture. Anurag is engaged as a high performing student burdened by expectations around scores and marks, alongside silence from his father Naresh Bansal contributing emotional distance.
The film works with these parallel stories to create a territory around the frustrations, underlying anger and insecure, seeking connection, empathy and understanding of the two other boys. As the boys begin to 'unravel' what the film calls 'mental knots', or Ghich Pich, we see some moments of tension, reflexivity, and then healing.
The restrained directorial vision supports the film writer–director Ankur Singla's imagined world and his connections to Chandigarh as part of his childhood. The film is grounded in the performances, providing emotional tension and humour, realistic editing and timing, and believable portrayals from actors satisfactory to the action of motion picture such as Geeta Agrawal Sharma as the compassionate mother figure. The film comes across as emotionally authentic.