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This article explores the multiple discursive negotiations through which adolescent fat subjectivities are reconstituted in two films, namely  Gippi  (2013) and  Fanney Khan  (2018). Taking an intersectional approach between the fat acceptance movement and girlhood studies, it demonstrates how the female protagonists challenge, question, and eventually undermine the hitherto existing paradigms of corporeality in Hindi cinema. The fat female body that is often relegated to the margins of the diegetic spaces of visual representations and popular cultures in South Asia, is accorded narrative centrality to provide a differential grammar of beauty, success, and empowerment. Though fatness is delineated in these two films as either a subject of intense hostility and antagonism between competing girls or a matter of desexualized femininity and traditional sartorial choices, it still facilitates an oppositional and counter-hegemonic ideal that destabilizes dominant notions of sizeism and fatphobia.

Fatness, girlhood, and self-acceptance in Gippi and Fanney Khan