Hate Story is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language erotic thriller film directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Vikram Bhatt.

Journalist Kavya Krishna and her male best friend, Vicky, pull off a sting operation against a big company which happens to belong to tycoon Siddharth Dhanrajgir.

First she contacts the CEO of cement company Cementec, Rajdev Singh, sleeps with him, and without his knowledge copies email from his phone.

Deshraj Tandon then organizes a press conference and withdraws his support to Cementic Group causing a huge loss to Siddharth and his company.

Siddharth also comes to believe the false information provided by Kavya to be true, resulting in Cementec suffering a loss of ₹ 100 billion.

She also offers to sleep with him at the cost of recovering the police file which contains her name and nominating her to the post of director of IIBI bank which holds account details for Cementec.

The movie ends with Kavya's background voice saying, "Mare hue log kabar se nahi dara karte, Vicky.

[10] Subhash K. Jha of IANS has given 3.5 out of 5 Stars by saying "'Hate Story' is a most riveting and aesthetic saga of a woman's revenge against the man.".

[11] Taran Adarsh of Bollywood Hungama gave the film a score of 3 out of 5 and said, "On the whole, 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.

[12] Srijana Mitra Das for The Times of India has given 3 out of 5 stars and says "'So, yeah, Hate Story exposes a lot - underneath Delhi's surface, that is, not really, as the adverts so tantalizingly showcased, of leading lady Paoli Dam.

The film instead blows the top right off the dirty deals, the, well, intercourse between different power spheres ruling India's capital - business, politics, journalism, police, all meet in this slick flick.

"[13] Raja Sen for Rediff.com has given 1.5/5 stars and says, "Despites its bold promos, Hate Story offers very little skin show.

All lyrics are written by Kumaar and Shabbir Ahmed; all music is composed by Harshit SaxenaThe film was a commercial success collecting 16.43 crore worldwide.

The film's total nett gross was ₹12.01 crore and was declared "Average" by the Box Office India.

Its second sequel is Hate Story 3, starring Sharman Joshi, Zarine Khan, Karan Singh Grover and Daisy Shah.

On 9 March 2018 Hate Story 4 was released starring Urvashi Rautela in the lead, which was not very successful at box office.