Cargo Movie Review: Watch it for great attempt at the sci-fi genre in Bollywood
Cargo Movie Rating: 3 stars
Just watched Cargo movie on Netflix . So let’s analyze the cast, release date, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Vikrant Massey, Shweta Tripathi, Nandu Madhav, Biswapati Sarkar, Hansal Mehta, Konkona Sen Sharma (Cameo)
Director: Arati Kadav
Release Date: 9th September 2020 (On Netflix)
Story: The story is about Vikrant Massey who plays a rakshas named Prahastha. In his world, a peace treaty has been signed between the demons and human beings and the two co-exist. He is stationed at a spaceship since decades, works for an organization named Post Death Transition Services. His job involves welcoming recently deceased people on his space ship, informing them about their cause of death, healing them, and wiping off their memories to prepare them for the transition into the next life. These cargos are basically people who have just died on the Earth. He is soon joined by another astronaut Yuvishka (Shweta Tripathi), a brilliant mind with an amazing superpower, and together they embark on a journey of self-discovery.
In addition to this, both Prahastha and Yuvishka also have special powers. While Prahastha can lift any object in the air, Yuvishka has special healing powers. In fact, every rakshas in the world of Cargo has a unique special power.
At a time when the Indian cinema which is mostly dominated by drama, romance and comedies, all chances of viewing an original Hindi space sci-fi movie are so rare. But thanks to India’s two of the finest filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane who made it possible by backing director Arati Kadav‘s Cargo.
Positives
1. Vikrant Massey and a strong supporting cast which superlative performance
2. Story
3. Direction
Negatives
1. Slow pace
2. Climax
3. Music
Durgesh Tiwary’s View : Cargo is not your regular space sci-fi film where you see an incessant number of time travel moments or some ambitious space mission. It’s rather about the oppressive silence of the space that an astronaut often has to deal with.
Cargo also bursts one’s illusion about permanence. It makes you confront these uncomfortable truths, while also giving you hope that the cycle of life and death will continue. Our memories will fade, we will heal and start again.
Watch it if you want to see something different in Bollywood and also because you won’t easily see this kind of movie soon in Hindi cinema. Highly Recommended!!
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