Hate Story(A) Movie Review

12 Reviews | Avg Rating: 2.25/5

Though the film has ample shots of lovemaking but barely measures up to the hype it created. The erotic moments in the film are destroyed by poor acting, comically outdated lines and heavy breathing.But that apart, the basic surmise of Hate Story, the fuel that keeps the plot going, is hatred and vengeance.......Read Full Review

HATE STORY banks on the age-old vendetta theme, but what takes it beyond the mediocre mark is the cat and mouse game played by the protagonist and antagonist, besides, of course, the bold and provocative scenes that add spice to the proceedings. Though engaging in parts, there's no denying that the second hour seizes your attention, making it a watchable experience. ..…... Read Full Review

Hate Story isn't just one woman hating one man - it's also a tale of hateful deals, corruption, brutality and sleaze tiling the farmhouses fringing the capital, glistening in hotel bars, twinkling wickedly off the sunlight on the NCR's corporate buildings.Appreciate, if you will, the thriller, not the diet-erotica - that's rather an anti-climax...…..Read Full Review

What’s Good: The explicit scenes; the drama in the second half; Gulshan Devaiah’s performance.
What’s Bad: The predictable screenplay; the absence of any high points in the drama; a few unintentionally funny scenes; the slow pace of the narrative.
Verdict: Hate Story is an average fare at best..…..Read Full Review

Publicised purely on the strength of its 'erotic' content and scandalously adult themes, Hate Story delivers very little actual heat. What it does have is a girl willing to take her clothes off. With this as his cue, Agnihotri takes the classically misogynist approach to the vengeance film by first sadistically piling on increasingly brutal injustices onto his heroine before she finally snaps and comes back for irrationally but invariably titillating revenge: revenge best served by dishes dressed hot..…..Read Full Review

If in The Dirty Picture, Vidya Balan wore her sexuality on her sleeve, in Hate Story, Paoli uses her sexuality like a favoured currency in the stock market. This is a most riveting and aesthetic saga of a woman's revenge against the man who's wronged her since RK Nayyar's Inteqaam - except for the fact that Paoli does things Sadhana in Nayyar's film could have never imagined......Read Full Review

Four letter words, starting with an F, are no longer a rarity in Bollywood. So what we get is an oomphy, oozy femme who is uninhibitedly fatale, and capable of steaming things up, but stuck in a story which starts off as credible but all too soon plunges us into a pit of disbelief. And treatment which drags it out too long, minus slickness. ......Read Full Review

Predictable storyline and loosely weaved thrill will undoubtedly act as a hindrance for Hate Story. However, spiced up thrilling experience in patches, might be a reason to push yourself towards ticket window. Our final word- Stay away from Hate Story and look around for the donor, who might grace you with few funny moments, if not steamy scenes...…Read Full Review

Hate Story is Deadeningly boring and outstandingly mediocre. The plot has loopholes of the size of lunar craters and the film in totality has very few positives to recommend it. Gulshan Devaiya delivers a sincere performance, though in some scenes he’s been reduced to a caricature. Paoli Dam has done justice to her role and Nikhil Dwivedi wears the same expression throughout the small role he plays in the film..…..Read Full Review

There is no novelty in the story. It is the usual vendetta saga. Kaavya (Paoli Dam) is a newspaper reporter. For a Bollywood debut, Paoli Dam could not have asked for a better deal. The actress who is a known name in Kolkata has an author-backed role focusing on her character. HATE STORY is neither spectacular, nor boring. It falls somewhere in between...…….Read Full Review

If you walk into Hate Story in the hope of catching clothes shedding, bodies rubbing, silhouettes forming, sweat dripping, you won’t be disappointed. Overall, Hate Story remains a painfully long and worthless thriller.You’d love to hate Hate Story. Unless the voyeur in you insists, stay away from the theatres...…Read Full Review