Review of Cargo . . .
Making a debut film in that genre which is untouched by Indian film makers since years that is sci-fi is indeed a brave job.
Writer Director Arati Kadav made a sci-fi film Cargo which was internationally presented and appreciated in 2019 and finally they released it now for the audiences.
Produced by Anurag Kashyap, Vikramaditya Motwane, Arati Kadav herself along with other producers and delivered sci-fi film for Indian cinema. It is one of those genre to which Indian film makers generally don't give thumbs up as it requires lot of advancement and risky too for Indian market.
Cargo is not a typical sci-fi space kinda film but it's more related to Hindu mythology which shows what happens after death? We get here answers like there is no heaven or hell. Just soul of human transits from one to another life with the help of Post Death Transitional Services earlier it was called according to Hindu mythology Yamaraja who takes the soul to above the earth and sends back to earth in new life.
Cargo is a term used by PDTS department whenever they send some dead person soul to Pushpak which is space where they transit the dead into new life.
Prahastha (Vikrant Massey) working in Pushpak since years and we see het gets one by one Cargo of dead human in different ways like accidents or heart attack kinda deaths and he is doing job of transition to new life by some techniques and according to Hindu mythology earlier it was done by Raksassha and here Prahastha resembles to that Raksassha. After so many years of living alone in Pushpak finally he gets his assistant Yuvishka (Shweta Tripathi) and then what happens next we see in this almost 2 hours film.
Production design is very nice as we have never seen before in any Bollywood film but to be honest it can not be compared to Hollywood in terms of technicalities as whatever we are seeing in 2020 they had already achieved it in 70s and in my opinion we might be able to match that level in next 50 years as nowadays OTT platforms are active and some unnoticed film makers are getting chance to come up with something extraordinary subjects. Just before few days i saw amazing mini series JL 50 and now Cargo that proves Indian cinema is not only limited to social drama or entertainer mainstream with having 5 typical songs undoubtedly that is first and should always be first priority for single screen theatres but some low budget yet creative films are also Indian film makers making nowadays.
Cargo is well executed i didn't get bore in this 2 hours space film but yes it does have slow pace and one must have patience to understand and relate this one. I'm so much thankful to producers who supported Arati Kadav Ji for creating unusual stuff which i have never seen before in Indian films.
Arati Kadav take a bow for making this i must say it's brave job and we the cinema fans must appreciate your efforts for this. All it takes is belief and ambition to touch several subjects.
Cargo is lifted by another plus point that is sincere performances by two lead cast one Vikrant Massey who gathered lot of love from web series and films and another talented and very sweet Shweta Tripathi.
Both of them have done excellent job here. The trailer was so intriguing for me and i was eagerly waiting for it to release as I'm fan of both these actors.
Another well casted actor who's third lead in the film is Nandu Madhav who is impressive and has got some very goo dialogues besides these two.
There are some special appearances too which I'm not going to reveal here but loved them equally.
Dialogue writing work is also very nice and there's one song which is thought provoking
Finally i would like to say with the help of OTT platform nowadays Indian film makers are trying their hands into various kind of subjects and that's building great future of Indian cinema.
For this brave attempt by Arati Kadav which is streaming on Netflix now
My Ratings
3/5
--- by Harsh Desai Filmy . . .
