Zwigato trailer: Kapil Sharma shines as a food delivery boy in heart-wrenching film

His wife, played by Shahana Goswami, who is a homemaker, first complains about him spending lesser time with the family but later decides to support him by taking up a job. But, blinded by his patriarchal mindset, the man can’t fathom the fact that his wife will go out of the house to earn money.

After watching Zwigato, a viewer reviewed the film on Twitter and wrote, “Zwigato poignantly depicts the ongoing class struggle in India by bringing the audience alongside the contemporary life of a food courier in a Jharkhand. Layers of family, surveillance tech, joy, tradition, pride, partnership intersect so elegantly. Congrats, Nandita Das!”

Nandita had earlier explained why she chose comedian Kapil Sharma to play the lead role in her film, “The film attempts to make visible what’s hidden in plain sight. And for this, the cast and crew has serendipitously come together. One day, Kapil Sharma popped up on my screen! I hadn’t seen his show, but I could see him wholly representing the ‘common man’, despite not being one anymore.”

Kapil Sharma has also earlier tried his luck on the big screen in films like Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon and Firangi. However, both films failed to give a flight to Kapil’s acting career and he resorted to his comic skills to entertain the audience.

Zwigato has been jointly produced by Sameer Nair’s Applause Entertainment and Nandita Das Initiatives.