Indian Cinema Makers’ Never Give Up (UA) is a murder drama.
David (Sarish Kanungo) is married to Janet (Pixie Mahajan) who cheats on him by having an affair with David’s lawyer-friend, Peter (Arry Dabas). Candy (Akshata Dayal Malhotra) runs an event management company. Janet used to work for Candy and had met David at Candy’s party. Janet had quit Candy’s company before marrying David, and had joined forces with Williams (Piyush Ghodse) to run an events company.
Janet murders Candy by mistake when she goes to the latter’s house to confront her for a contract she (Candy) almost snatches from her. To save her skin, Janet approaches Peter who asks his men to kill Williams as he is the only eye-witness to Candy’s murder. But Williams survives the attack by Peter’s men although he loses his mental balance.
David vows to kill his wife, Janet, when he learns that she is in a relationship with his own friend, Peter. Is David successful in murdering wife Janet? What ultimately happens to Peter, Janet, David and Williams?
Ruta and Vinit Kochrekar have written an asinine story which has several twists and turns but most of them are silly and even stupid. The screenplay, written by Unmesh Kabre, Ruta and Vinit Kochrekar, is tedious and boring. Nothing in the drama manages to engage the viewers. Dialogues, penned by Ruta, Vinit Kochrekar and Akshata Malhotra, are pedestrian.
Sarish Kanungo is no hero material. He does a fair job as David. Arry Dabas acts quite well as lawyer Peter. Pixie Mahajan is okay as Janet. Akshata Dayal Malhotra is alright in the role of Candy. Piyush Ghodse lends ordinary support as Williams. Yogita Chaudhari, Ratnesh Roop Shrivastava, Shoky Sainani, Divya Panday, Praveen Khedekar, Leeladhar Jagtap and the rest provide routine support.
Unmesh Kabre’s direction is terribly weak. His camerawork is ordinary. Siddharth Bose and Ritesh Kumar Nalini’s music is quite tuneful. Lyrics (Ananya Bose, Rakesh Singh and B.R.B.) are decent. Shailesh G. Koli’s choreography is okay. Siddharth Bose’s background music is so-so. Editing (Rakesh Yadav and Bakul Vora) is loose.
On the whole, Never Give Up is a disastrous fare.
Released on 10-5-’19 at Imperial (daily 4 shows) and other cinemas of Bombay thru Mittal Advertising & Distribution. Publicity & opening: almost nil. …….Also released in C.I.