Hate Story 3 Movie Review

Hate Story 3 is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language erotic thriller filmdirected by Vishal Pandya. Produced by T-Series, it stars Karan Singh Grover, Sharman Joshi, Zarine Khan and Daisy Shah in lead roles, and Priyanshu Chatterjee in a pivotal role.

Written by Vikram Bhatt and Madhuri Banerji, the film belongs to the Hate Story (film series). The film was released on 4 December 2015.

The story is about Aditya Singh (Sharman Joshi) and Siya Singh (Zarine Khan) who control the family business after the sad demise of Aditya's elder brother Vikram. Suddenly, an unknown businessman named Saurav Singhania (Karan Singh Grover) enters their lives. Saurav, who shows interest in Aditya's company, makes them an unbelievable offer. What follows is Aditya and Siya's struggle to uncover Saurav's real intentions.

Both of them open a Vikram Diwan memorial hospital in the name of Aditya's older brother who has died in a plane crash. In fact even Siya married Aditya, she was engaged to be married to Vikram. You even hear that she was pregnant with Vikram's child and when he dies in the aircrash, she marries Aditya. Eventually she miscarries.

Coming back to the present day Saurav Singhania tries to cause a lot of issues for Aditya and Siya because he wants to sleep with Siya and Aditya doesn't agree to this. Aditya's trusted secretary Kaya(Daisy Shah) who heads some of his businesses is very good with handling things till one day the company gets into trouble for serving `poisoned' cold drinks. Aditya is forced to throw Kaya out. Saurav then befriend Kaya. He flies her to his place in Malaysia and the two of them become friends. Kaya is attracted to Saurav. It looks as if Kaya has betrayed Aditya. However one learns that Kaya is a spy for Aditya. She is trying to learn about Saurav so that she and Aditya can finish him.

At one stage Aditya lands in prison. Siya then has no choice but to go to Saurav for help and to remove her clothes and pride to saurav. And in the morning, she asks Saurav for Aditya's freedom.

When Siya sees a tattoo on Saurav's back she realises that the man who she thought was a stranger is no stranger. The tattoo is identical to the one her first love and Aditya's elder brother Vikram had on his back. While Siya confronts Saurav and asks him if he is actually Vikram and whether he has had plastic surgery to change his looks; Saurav tells her she will never know the answer to this question in this lifetime.

But after a bitter hand combat and gun battle between Aditya, Saurav and Siya where all three are grievously injured; in fact Aditya and Siya die; one gets to know that Vikram has actually survived the aircrash. He is handicapped but he has told his friend Saurav about the betrayal of his brother Aditya and his fiancee Siya. Post this Saurav takes revenge on Aditya and Siya and that is how the whole plot unfolds.

 

With the success of Hate Story 2, producer Bhushan Kumar signed director Vishal Pandya signed a three-picture deal with T-Series Studios.Early casting included actor Sharman Joshi, but he was replaced by Gurmeet Choudhary for a brief period of timedue to conflicts with Joshi's schedule. 26 February 2015, Joshi reported that he was prepared for scenes where he would be nude, and on 1 March, he reported that he was enjoying shooting his explicit scenes. Actress Daisy Shah was brought aboard the project through Salman Khan's insistence that producer Bhushan Kumar speak with her about joining the project. Filming ended on 16 October.

Bollywood hungama gave the film 3.5 stars.Meena Iyer of The Times of India gave the film 3 stars. Rohit Vats of Hindustan Times gave the film 1.5 stars. Shubhra Gupta of Indian Express gave it 1 star. Koimoi gave it 1 star.Subhash K. Jha of SKJ Bollywood News gave the film 2 stars.

 

According to Daily News and Analysis India, the film collected ₹9.72 crore (US$1.4 million) nett on its opening day. On its second day the film collected ₹10.5 crore (US$1.6 million) nett. Oneindia (Filmi Beat) declared the film a Super Hit after it collected ₹26.82 crore (US$4.0 million) in its opening weekend. According to Oneindia (Filmi Beat) the movie collected ₹31.22 crore (US$4.6 million) in 4 days. The film collected ₹3.95 crore (US$590,000) nett on its fifth day to take its total to ₹35.17 crore (US$5.2 million). The film collected ₹2.25 crore (US$330,000) nett on its second Friday. The movie made ₹42.20 crore (US$6.3 million) by the end of week 1 at the Box Office. The film collected ₹7.25 crore (US$1.1 million) nett in its second weekend to take its total to ₹49.45 crore (US$7.3 million) nett after ten days. The film collected ₹51.69 crore (US$7.7 million) in 12 days. The movie finished its run with approx.₹55 crore (US$8.2 million).