The film stars Jiiva and Shalini Pandey, while Yogi Babu, Radha Ravi, Sathish, Rajendran, Vivek Prasanna and Madhankumar appear in pivotal roles.

Sathish, who is his family's sole breadwinner, is fired from his place of employment, and Venkat is an aspiring actor who hopes he can become a hero if he has money.

The production of the film commenced in February 2018 by director Don Sandy who rose to prominence in Tamil cinema with his directorial debut Mahabalipuram in 2015.

[11] Janani K of India Today wrote, "Gorilla is a lazily made film that takes the audience for granted.

The chief reason for this is that the director, Don Sandy, understands the silliness and gets the the [sic] cast and crew to tag along for this fun ride".