Hate Story (film series)

Hate Story is a series of Indian erotic thriller films, produced by Vikram Bhatt and Bhushan Kumar under the banner BVG Films and T-Series.

Hate Story
Directed by	Vivek Agnihotri (Hate Story) Vishal Pandya (Hate Story 2-Hate Story 3-Hate Story IV)
Screenplay by	Vikram Bhatt (Hate Story, Hate Story 3) Madhuri Banerjee (Hate Story 2) Sameer Arora Vishal Pandya (Hate Story IV)
Produced by	Vikram Bhatt (Hate Story) Bhushan Kumar (Hate Story 2-Hate Story IV)
Starring	see below
Cinematography	Attar Singh Saini (Hate Story) Kedar Gaikwad (Hate Story 2) Prakash Kutty (Hate Story 3) Sunita Radia (Hate Story IV)
Edited by	Satyajeet Gazmer (Hate Story) Kuldip Mehan (Hate Story 2) Manish More (Hate Story 3, Hate Story IV)
Music by	Songs: Harshit Saxena (Hate Story) Arko Mithoon (Hate Story 2, Hate Story IV) Meet Bros Anjjan Rashid Khan Sumit Sethi Prince (Hate Story 2) Amaal Mallik Meet Bros Baman (Hate Story 3) Tanishk Bagchi Tony Kakkar Baman-Chand (Hate Story IV) Score: Amar Mohile (Hate Story) Sunny and Inder Bawra (Hate Story 2-Hate Story IV)
Production companies	BVG Films (Hate Story) T-Series Films (Hate Story 2-Hate Story IV) Super T Films UK Ltd (Hate Story IV)
Distributed by	ASA Productions and Enterprises Rajvi Entertainment Dhanraj Films (Hate Story) T-Series Films (Hate Story 2, Hate Story 3) AA Films (Hate Story IV)
Release dates	1: 20 April 2012 (2012-04-20) 2: 18 July 2014 (2014-07-18) 3: 4 December 2015 (2015-12-04) 4: 9 March 2018 (2018-03-09)
Running time	510 minutes
Country	India
Language	Hindi
Budget	₹61 crore
Box office	₹136.31 crore[1]

The first film was released in 2012 is directed by Vivek Agnihotri,^[2][3][4][5] the second film released in 2014 is directed by Vishal Pandya^[6][7][8] and the third film which is also directed by Vishal Pandya was released on 4 December 2015.^{[9][10][11][12]} fourth film which is once again directed by Vishal Pandya is released on 9 March 2018. Hate Story 3 till date is the most successful film in the franchise.^[13]

Cast

Hate Story (2012 film)

Main article: Hate Story

• Paoli Dam as Kavya Krishnan
• Gulshan Devaiah as Siddharth Dhanrajgir
• Nikhil Dwivedi as Vicky
• Joy Sengupta as Rajdev Singh
• Mohan Kapoor as Cabinet minister Malhotra
• Bhairavi Goswami as Bhairavi
• Iravati Harshe as Rajdev's Wife
• Gopal K. Singh as Inspector
• Saurabh Dubey as Kumar Dhanrajgir
• Mukti Mohan in special appearance in the song 'Raat'

Hate Story 2 (2014 film)

Main article: Hate Story 2

• Sushant Singh as Mandar Mhatre
• Surveen Chawla as Sonika Prasad
• Jay Bhanushali as Akshay Bedi
• Siddharth Kher as Inspector Anton Varghese
• Rajesh Khera as Atul Mhatre
• Neha Kaul as Mandar's Wife
• Sunny Leone in a special appearance in the song 'Pink Lips'

Hate Story 3 (2015 film)

Main article: Hate Story 3

• Sharman Joshi as Aditya Deewan
• Zarine Khan as Siya Deewan
• Karan Singh Grover as Saurav Singhania / Karan
• Daisy Shah as Kaya
• Prithvi Zutshi as Vaswani
• Puja Gupta in Special appearance in song "Neendein Khul Jaati Hain"

Hate Story 4 (2018 film)

Main article: Hate Story 4

• Urvashi Rautela as Natasha Choudhary (Tasha)
• Vivan Bhatena as Aryan Khurana
• Karan Wahi as Rajveer Khurana
• Ihana Dhillon as Rishma
• Gulshan Grover as Vik
• Tia Bajpai as Bhavna (special appearance)
• Shaad Randhawa as Ashwin (special appearance)

Crew

Occupation	Film
	Hate Story (2012)	Hate Story 2 (2014)	Hate Story 3 (2015)	Hate Story IV (2018)
Director	Vivek Agnihotri	Vishal Pandya
Producer(s)	Vikram Bhatt	Bhushan Kumar Krishan Kumar
Executive Producer(s)	Manmohan D. Singh Dharmendra Rawal	Manmohan D. Singh	Vivek Bhatnagar
Writer(s)	Vikram Bhatt	Vikram Bhatt Madhuri Banerjee Sammeer Arora
Cinematography	Attar Singh Saini	Kedar Gaikwad	Prakash Kutty	Sunita Radia
Scored by	Amar Mohile	Sunny and Inder Bawra
Soundtrack album composer(s)	Harshit Saxena	Arko Meet Bros Anjjan Mithoon Rashid Khan Sumit Prince	Amaal Mallik Meet Bros Baman	Tanishk Bagchi Arko Mithoon Tonny Kakkar Baman
Editor(s)	Satyajeet Gazmer	Kuldip Mehan	Manish More

Release and revenue

Film	Release date	Budget	Box office revenue
Hate Story	20 April 2012	₹9 crore	₹16.43 crore[14]
Hate Story 2	18 July 2014	₹15 crore	₹31.07 crore
Hate Story 3	4 December 2015	₹20 crore	₹62.21 crore
Hate Story IV	9 March 2018	₹21 crore	₹26.60 crore
Total		₹65 crore	₹136.31 crore