Hate Story

When we see the first trailer of Hate Story, we think of an exciting, bold, electrifying story. Of Course, the erotica depicted in the trailer is anything but subtle. So when I saw this movie, I actually expected a decent movie. (I really did not have a reason to because Vivek Agnihotri isn't even a decent story-teller) Still, the trailer made me have slight hope. However, that hope was gone within the first 20 minutes. More on that in a bit, first the synopsis.

Kaavya is a young, modern journalist out to find the truth and the truth only. She pulls a sting operation on a corrupt businessman Sidhart Dhanrajgir. "Impressed" with her work, Dhanrajgir offers her a job. Kaavya instantly falls for Sidhart and sleeps with him. A delighted Kaavya is shattered when Sidhart fires her and kicks her out. Kaavya, pregnant with Sidhart's child has a forced abortion done by Sidhart's goons and is left ruined. Kaavya's only objective now is to get revenge and destroy Sidhart.

The story seems done to death but even an old story told in a new way can do wonders. (Agneepath being a recent example of such brilliance) Where Hate Story lost me was in the first few reels. Why does Kaavya work for Siddhart if the post has nothing to do with her last job? Money? If so, then why is she shown as this moral and ethical journalist passionate about her job? Why is she throwing all that away for extra cash? Second, how does she fall for Siddhart so fast? I mean, come on! She goes on a holiday with him and ends up sleeping with him right then? Isn't this the same moral journalist? Plus, why is she even interacting with Siddarth after proving that he's a corrupt money-hungry man? All those questions were thrown at me just in the initial reels. Not a good sign. The writing is poor, and takes the audience for granted. We're not idiots.

More flaws? Of Course. Why is there so much forced sex? Also, I don't know why Kaavya went to learn "Prostitution" of she really wasn't going to be one. Plus, she slept with the corrupt businessman a week into getting the job - She's got the traits of prostitute in her.

The climax is surprising but seems like something we've seen numerous times.

The film really doesn't score much on anything besides two things. The slick style of filmmaking and the decent performances.

Vikram Bhatt's story is old fashioned and completely flawed. Too many loopholes. Some dialogue is decent, however.

The music doesn't offer much.

Vivek Agnihotri's direction is okay. Actually one of the better things in this flick. It's stylish.

Paoli Dam makes a confident debut. She's actually really good here. She looks good, of course, but there's also a dominant actress in her. Only if her character and script was better. Despite that, she carries this bad film on her shoulders. Gulshan Deviaha is also impressive. He looks awkward in the starting but pulls on his own.

Resst of the cast is good too.

Overall - A flawed film not worth watching even once.

Let us discuss the first part which released on 20th April 2012. It casts Nikhil Dwivedi, Gulshan Devaiah & Paoli Dam. This film as the name suggests has to hate at the center and in this part, one can explore the intensity of hate between Paoli Dam and Gulshan Devaiah. What I like about this film is the reality because if you see today's films most of them seem to be fictional but this film could be drawn into reality also. The story was simple but the presentation was very good. The music was average while the direction, screenplay, cinematography are good. I give this film an average rating.

Hate Story was a complete surprise considering the trailer showed exotic and bold scenes by Paoli Dam, but more than that, it had fine performances by the star cast.

Kaavya (Paoli Dam) is a fearless journalist who along with Nikhil (Nikhil Dwedi) performs sting operations. One such operation leads to of exposing of a money deal in India Cementac company which outrages the CEO , Siddhart Dhanrajgir. To avenge his company's bad name , he plans to destroy Kavya by hiring her in his company and pretend to fall in love with her. Kavya falls into his charm and her life soon turns topsy turvy. She becomes pregnant and soon is almost killed by Siddhart's goon. She is cast away from her family and friend except Nikhil who helps her at every step. However , she starts planning to bring down Siddhart and his company and becomes a prostitute.

Vivek Agnihotri ( Chocolate) has directed an exotic thriller which raise few bars in terms of erotic scenes and abusive languages used in the film . However , the good part of the film is the storyline and decent direction with fine performances. It keeps you entertained till the end and that is where the film delivers. Coming to the performances, Paoli Dam is the captain of the ship. She has displayed her skin immensely in the flick but more than that it is her performances which should be considered. She is excellent in her debut film and will definitely go long way. Another noted performance comes from Gulshan Devaiah. He was effective in the villainous role.

Overall , Hate Story is a good watch with nice story , good performances and decent direction . Good 3.5/5

An "erotic thriller" in India, man that's something you do not come across every day. So, Vivek Agnihotri did manage to gather a respectable amount of audience for his latest movie.

For me, Hate Story is just about an average movie.

The story is all about a cat and mouse chase between the protagonist Kavya Krishna played by Paoli Dam and Siddharth Dhanrajgir played by Gulshan Devaiya. There isn't much other than that.

Now, when a director is confident about the script and the overall movie itself it often goes in favour of the film itself. But this same confidence hits it hard when the director becomes so sure about the movie's success that he doesn't put in the desired effort. Unfortunately, Hate Story is about just that.

Even in Paoli Dam's case as the vibrant journalist(considering she is one the leading actress in the Bengali film industry) it seems that just because she's showing off her skin and doing bold scenes, she feels that the audience won't care if she hams through most of the scenes and talks in a weird trying to be sensuous kind of voice. I mean I felt so.

Honestly, I didn't pay much attention to the music and let me tell you one more thing the PROMO of Hate Story was much more BOLD(if you know what I mean.. hehe) than the whole movie itself.

A MAJOR REASON that left me disappointed :P considering that I had to tell my parents I was going for the movie. Plus the word 'Fuck' was used wherever possible which was annoying.

Yet,(there's always a 'yet') I can cannot ignore the brave attempt, the good pace and the not so bad concept of the movie. Plus Gulshan Devaiya does a decent job as well. Nikhil Dwivedi is just okay. And Paoli Dam respect

2/5 My advice wait for the director's cut version ;)

Agree or not, because of this film's success, Hate Story went on to have 4 sequels in just 6 years. This was a more of revenge inside a blue film. Female revenge stories are always amazing to witness and Hate Story 1 was one of them.

Hence, in bollywood, Hate Story holds a cult status amongst female revenge stories.

PS - imo till date the best and gruesome female revenge Story I have seen is "I spit on your grave " (1970)