If humans are taken into a huge spaceship after death they do not find heaven or hell. They instead meet demon agents who prepare and heal them for rebirth. Arati Kadhav mixes science and myth in an original and inventive sci-fi Indian film. She removes the ideas of rakshas and tells the story about the loneliness of demons through different stories of human deaths.
He has found comfort in his loneliness and speaks less. His dead guests are perhaps the most exciting and alive part of his otherwise boring life. His routine gets disrupted as he gets an assistant, a university topper Yuvishka Shekhar played by Shweta Tripathi. Her confidence and modern and innovative ways of dealing with humans who are known as cargo threaten Prahastha who thought that space belongs to him.
Vikrant Massey shows Prahastha’s loneliness and longing in a comfortable manner. Shweta Tripathi is convincing enough to deliver Yuvishka’s assertiveness and gullibility. Both the actors are spontaneous and simple which was a must-have requirement for the director’s grand vision of storytelling.
Arati Kadhav through Yuvishka’s sensitivity goes on to ask many questions which everybody does about the purpose of life. The movie has been released at the time when the world is gripped by coronavirus and uncertainty of life due to man-made disasters. The crisis of the movie hits us harder than ever due to this reason.
Cargo also removes one’s illusion of permanence. It makes you face all the uncomfortable truths and gives you hope that the cycle of life and earth will always continue. Our memories will fade out and we will heal and start yet again. Yuvishka asks, ‘When we all have to die, why do we have stories?’ This is because these stories make us more than just cargo.
