Konkana Sen Sharma plays a cameo appearance in the film for which Kadav wrote a long backstory which is not shown.

ĭue to low budget, motorcycle helmets were used for astronaut helmets in the film that were enhanced with paper and cardboard. The entire shoot took 30 days and was finished in November, 2018. It was also shot in outdoors for nearly 10 days. There were two spaceship sets for both interior and exterior shoots.

Kadav felt that a single location film could be visually boring so decided to use a lot of different colours and lights to make it look interesting. The film was shot in a spaceship set for 27 days. Discarded automated teller machines were used as palm reading machines in the film. Several spaces from the set of spaceship were reused during shoot. It stunned me, and that's when I knew I had to do this film.' Filming and post-production She stated: 'Eastern sci-fi is more relatable as it matches with Indian culture in its milieu and values.' Massey felt the story 'abstract and gorgeous', further mentioning: 'I had to read the script in detail to what she was saying. Kadav cited Argentine short-story writer Jorge Luis Borges and sci-fi writer Ted Chiang as her inspirations for the story. However, its founders Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane decided to back Cargo.

Kadav was planning to make a film with Phantom Films, but the production house dissolved and the project was shelved. She said, 'I didn't want the tech to be intimidating but more endearing.' For references, her team looked at Gravity (2013) to real NASA visuals 'to figure out what we could use from those films that wouldn’t cost us much.' Kadav decided to showcase the technology in the film from the 1980s and not very advanced. She wrote a science fiction story set in a spaceship that also tapped into Indian mythology and issues like life and death. In order to manage the budget of the film, Kadav decided to make a film with minimum location. She then wrote a new screenplay based on a one liner, 'an immigration office in space for dead people.' Cargo is the sixth screenplay written by Kadav who has earlier made short films like Time Machine. Kadav wrote a 'complicated massive intergalactic superhero story' for the next three months but later realised it was too expensive to shoot. She started thinking about what could be made in a single location and pictured a spaceship. A friend of her Rahul Puri had told her that film school Whistling Woods International was going to be free for a month and its studio space, camera and some lights will be available for shoot. After getting angry at the situation, Kadav started writing another script and after 2-3 months, she developed an idea. The idea of Cargo came to director Arati Kadav in 2017 after she worked on pre-production for a film for six years before it got shelved.

Prabal Panjabi as Bhavesh Joshi, the cargo.

Konkana Sen Sharma as Mandakini (Special Appearance).

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