Review of movie 'Cargo'

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This movie was first premiered on 19, October 2019 at the 21st Mumbai Film Festival organized by  MAMI (Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image), sponsored by Jio.

The movie has been released on Netflix on 9, September 2020. The film has been written and directed by Ms. Arati Kadav and brilliantly captures the vivid acting of Vikrant Massey (as Prahashta, a demon), Shweta Tripathi (as Yuvishka Shekhar, a demon), Nandu Madhav (as Nitigya, a demon) in lead roles. 

Indian Cinema has been active in the genre of sci-fi cinema since its first release ' Kaadu' (meaning - The Jungle) in 1952. Kaadu was a Tamil-American co-production. Most of the Indian audiences rely on Hollywood Sci-fi movies due to their impressive special effects and fresh storylines.

Crago has been entirely produced in India. Ms. Kadav has done a great job by trying to relate mythology to science in her debut filmmaking. It brings freshness to the story of the movie. The story revolves around a lone crew member Prahastha who is abroad a spaceship and who readies the dead people for reincarnation by healing their bodies and erasing their memories. Prahastha is a demon so he has an unbelievably long life span (the movie leaves the mortality of the demons on the viewer's understanding). Cargo refers to the dead people in the movie.

Prahastha gets an assistant Yuvishka who is also a demon. Yuvishka is a young college pass out who is enthusiastic and overeager to assist yet sensitive. She wants to help all those who can be helped. 

The movie fully revolves around the central characters after they meet, their struggles (Prahastha wanted to be forgotten and Yuvishka wanted to be remembered), their unique characteristics ( Prahastha being a loner and robotic and Yuvishvika being hopeful, sensitive, and vivacious), and their learnings from each other. There is no much clue given about the lives of Prahasta and Yuviska before they became the crew members which could bring us another sequel. The relationship between humans and demons is unclear and not explored and may provide another powerful sub-plot. No light has been thrown on the formation of Post-Death Transition Services.

The movie tries to tell the short backstories of the dead people in a majestic way. Yet the movie becomes monotonous and loses its pace at several points.

The movie was produced in a tight budget, hence, I appreciate the cinematography and the special effects used in the movie. However, the technology used in the movies was obsolete and scrap. The use of colorful buttons in the space and the telescreens almost like the original series of Star Trek(available on Netflix) which aired in 1966 for the first time could be averted.

The movie has done great in captivating the emotions and providing a fresh storyline. But, the rigidness to explore the storyline is clearly visible. Many loose ends have been left in story-telling as well as technology implementation.

Nonetheless, as a debutant project in a much-unexplored genre, Ms. Kadav has done a commendable and has made India proud by scoring a place in SXSW (South by Southwest) Film Festival.

I would recommend this one-time watch for its fresh perspective of story-telling, light and witty jokes, detailed acting, and the real hard work put In by Ms. Kadav.

Happy watching and have a great weekend.:-)

This is the link to the interview By Ms. Arati Kadav as published in FirstPost.

The trailer of the movie:

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