Hate Story 3 Movie Review

I was contemplating not reviewing this film at all as it falls under the exploitative category which is mostly critic-proof. Yea, it's that kinda film making where the adult scenes are shot first and then a story woven around it. Such movies have their own target audience who don't require a critics point-of-view to watch it. Anyways, since I spend two and half hours of my life and a couple of hundred bucks on it, here comes the review.

The movie is a tale of friendship, twists and turns with murder mixed with politics and a trap to chase the bloody money. Behind every fortune their is a crime where rich business men and politicians are involved. Directed by Vishal Pandey the story could have been much better.

Hate Story 3 is a story about a business man Aditya Dewan, a man hungry for wealth played and acted well by Sharman Joshi. His wife Siya Dewan is played by the beautiful Zarine Khan. Kaya Sharma is played by the gorgeous Daisy Shah. Karan Grover as Mr Saurav Singhania, is a rich vulgar cunning rascal with a lot of money. His acting could have been better and looks like it needs quite some work.

Hate Story 3 begins with a much in love Sharman Joshi – Zareen Khan making out in slow motion singing 'Tumhe Apna Banane ki Kasam'- remixed from Mahesh Bhatt's 'Sadak' (1991) soundtrack. A zillionaire stranger (Karan Singh Grover) gifts them an audi and meets Aditya Diwan to offer him an indecent proposal of sleeping once with his wife for any amount of money on planet earth.

Aditya, furious and prompt, puts his secretary turned CEO Kaya Sharma (clueless Daisy Shah) on the job to unearth Singhania's motive which leads to one more lust laden item song. Frankly, unnecessary situations are deliberately created to facilitate random item numbers and love making sessions to satisfy the lowest common denominator amongst the audience.

Karan Singh for instance, spends atleast 10 minutes of his total screen time just unbuttoning his shirt. Ditto the ample cleavage show by Salman Khan’s past leads – Zareen Khan and Daisy Shah. It’s all needless and sadly, not even remotely sexy. I mean every love making shot has a song sequence attached to it making you wonder if we Indians, cannot perform without a song in the background!!!

To add to our woes, the music by some half dozen composers is strictly of the fast forward on remote category.

Demi Moore and Robert Redford’s ‘Indecent Proposal’ (1993) is the obvious inspiration. Besides, diverse material from Madhur Bhandarkar’s ‘Corporate’ (2006) to the Korean classic 'Oldboy' (2003) is sourced to cook up a convulted vendetta plot which becomes a laughable matter after a point of time. The climatic twist is as predictable as Christmas in December.

Not surprisingly, the acting department is all cheese and ham. Zareen Khan and Daisy Shah let their cleavage do all the acting. Karan Singh Grover has notable screen presence but needs to polish his diction and loosen his stiffness in front of camera. Sharman Joshi, otherwise a fine actor, wears a morose “Yeh main kis film mein phas gaya” kinda look throughout. As an audience, even you get the same feel exiting the auditorium.

Zarine And Daisy both look super hot in the movie. The way they sizzle on screen is too good and were greeted with whistling and hooting by the audience. I wish they both would have acted better. The trailer was sexy, bold and erotic and the movie too has some steamy scenes.