A look at the movies releasing today

Go is an unusual mixture of comedy, camaraderie, slick action and well, zombies. Hardik and Luv are two dope heads who tag along to Goa with their buddy, Bunny, on his ‘ostensible’ business trip.

Gippi

Genre: Teen comedy

Director: Sonam Nair

Cast: Riya Vij, Divya Dutta, Taaha Shah, Arbaz Kadwani, Jayati Modi, Doorva Tripathi and Mrinal Chawla

Synopsis: Gippi is a 14-year-old girl who lives in Shimla with her mother Pappi and her younger 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, 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.

Go Goa Gone

Genre:Zombie comedy

Director: Krishna DK, Raj Nidimoru

Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Suparn Verma, Anand Tiwari, Puja Gupta

Synopsis: The film is an unusual mixture of comedy, camaraderie, slick action and well, zombies. Hardik and Luv are two dope heads who tag along to Goa with their buddy, Bunny, on his ‘ostensible’ business trip. Luv comes across a free-spirited girl named Luna, who casually invites them to an exclusive underground rave party happening on a remote island.



The party is headed by a macho Indo-Russian mafioso named Boris. But something is not quite right on this island as all of a sudden, the party-goers are accosted by zombies! No one knows where these zombies came from and what’s their purpose. And who is Boris really, and why has this cold-hearted drug-dealing don come to save their lives? The mystery needs to be unravelled before it’s too late.