By Hindustan Times
Hate Story is being pitched as an erotic thriller but it's neither very thrilling nor particularly erotic. Nevertheless it does work as unintentional comedy. My favourite scene: The heroine, Kavya, an investigative reporter played by Paoli Dam, has come to a prostitute for training. Kavya says that she desires to be the most efficient within the business but doesn't understand how to make like to a person she doesn't love. The prostitute gives her a master class. She says: Shake it, take it, fake it.
Kavya arrives at this sorry scenario because she conducts a sting operation on an immense cement company. Which compels the corporate head, Siddharth Dhanrajgir, played by Gulshan Devaiah, to head after her. He sleeps together with her after which dumps her, resulting in that other classic dialogue: I f*** with individuals who f*** with me. Before it, Kavya is training within the boudoir arts. She then proceeds on a seduce-and-destroy mission.
At best, this material might have been a fun B-grade romp but director Vivek Agnihotri kills it with seriousness. In an interview he said: I WISHED to film it within the manner of European cinema. I AM NOT sure what that implies but what we get is heavy breathing, gritty expressions, split screens, screeching background music, all which after all leads on to laughter. Dam gets to wear gowns and pant with many men. Devaiah snarls and does his best psycho-with-father-issues expressions. But neither may also help salvage Hate Story. The one thing this film does is offer the hope that our Censor Board is becoming more reasonable. So that you can some day have the ability to see a movie just like the Social Network without the 'asshole' bleeped out.
