Top 10 Controversial Bollywood Wannabes: Number 5: Paoli Dam

Bengali actress Paoli Dam was nobody before she appeared in the poster of "Hate Story" where she shows a tattooed bare back with a strategically placed gun. It was followed by an uncensored clip of "Hate Story", showing Paoli delivering sexually explicit and abusive dialogues, going viral on the net. Ever since, she has been hogging the limelight for her uninhibited views on nudity and boldness in front of the camera. Last year she got negative publicity for her bold scene in Bengali film "Chatrak".

‘Hate Story’: Movie Review (2012)

Movie Review (2012)
 Film: “Hate Story”
Cast: Paoli Dam, Gulshan Devaiah, Nikhil Dwivedi
Director: Vivek Agnihotri
Rating: 3.5/5
Meet the newest avatar of Maa Kali! The fascist avenging woman has always been a favourite figure of fantasy fashioning for our films. Who can forget Nargis gunning down her own son in Mehboob Khan’s “Mother India”?
The motivations for revenge in “Hate Story” are not quite the ones that impelled the woman protagonist to rise up in arms in “Mother India” or for that matter in “Bhavna”, a film directed by “Hate Story” producer Vikram Bhatt’s father Pravin Bhatt, where Shabana Azmi killed her own husband.
Really, who needs a gun to get even when you have sex?
Paoli doesn’t give a damn if her bare back or flesh flash across the screen. She displays a healthy attitude of disdain for the camera, letting it swoop down on her vulture style, never allowing her vengeful character’s erotic journey to get sleazy, cheesy or lurid. The camera violates her character’s privacy with her consent.
“Hate Story” is a tale that invites provocative measures of counter-argument. When the protagonist Kaavya (Paoli Dam) gets down to revenge, she spares no one, least of all herself. She announces she wants to be a sex worker, and thereafter, there’s no looking back.
And quite a comely back it is.
Paoli’s Kaavya uses her physique to lure her enemy into her trap. Director Vivek Agnihotri cuts into her journey of self-destructive vendetta like a knife.
The episodes sometimes stretch the limits of belief. But what the heck! No one is making a statement here on the politically correct conduct of the Indian woman.
In what can be regarded as one of the most defiantly unconventional debut performances, Paoli lets herself go with the furious flow of her character’s vendetta.
The episodes hammer into one another with scarce room to breathe. The pace is dizzy most of the way. And when it slows down, you feel the protagonist’s vendetta is losing its steam.
Steamy lovemaking scenes are strewn across the narrative’s stricken landscape. The soundtrack suggests there’s an urgent tragedy nudging the erotic content. The dialogues by Rohit Malhotra don’t shy away from telling it like it is.
Vikram Bhatt’s screenplay is Sidney Sheldon territory. It doesn’t shy away from showing the heroine in an unflattering light. This is new-age cinema with no room for conventional narrative devices or apologies for what the protagonist sets out to do.
If in ‘The Dirty Picture’, Vidya Balan wore her sexuality on her sleeve, in ‘Hate Story’, Paoli uses her sexuality like a favoured currency in the stock market.
Mint-fresh and shock-proof, Paoli interprets her character with vigorous conviction. As her adversary Gulshan Devaiah (so watchable in “Shaitan” and “That Girl In Yellow Boots”) careens between rage and anguish quite effortlessly.
“Hate Story” is not quite the tale of the simpering wronged woman we’ve been seeing in our films since the time Adam impregnated Eve.
“Hate Story” pushes the envelope so hard, all the contents spill out in a torrential tumble of tantalising power-play set within the world of corporate battles and gender conflicts.
This is a most riveting and aesthetic saga of a woman’s revenge against the man who’s wronged her since R.K. Nayyar’s “Inteqaam” — except for the fact that Paoli does things Sadhana in Nayyar’s film could have never imagined.

‘Hate Story’ (2012) New Posters

Paoli Dam's HATE STORY not for kids!

The bold theatrical trailer of HATE STORY clearly indicated that the film will be certified as an adult film with an 'A' certificate. However, the director of the film, Vivek Agnihotri, also claims that his film is not for people below certain age and meant only for the adults.
Says the director, "Our motto is not to reach out to the masses but to reach out to the right person. And obviously this is an adult film. It is not meant for kids. And also not for them who think like kids."
According to Agnihotri, the film, which stars Paoli Dam, Gulshan Devaiyah and Nikhil Dwivedi, is India's first erotic movie. The film is about revenge and hate splattered with raunchy elements.On asking actor Nikhil Dwivedi his views on the same, he said, "Why are we discussing about 'A' Certificate? If the film is made only for the adults, then it is so obvious as what the censor board will certify it... It's an adult film and I don't think it is something new to Hindi Cinema."

Download Hate Story (2012) songs

01 - Mahe Jaan
Harshit Saxena
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02 - Dil Kanch Sa
Krishna
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03 - Raat
Sunidhi Chauhan
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04 - Mahe Jaan (Rock Version)
Harshit Saxena
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05 - Raat (Remix)
Sunidhi Chauhan
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06 - Dil Kanch Sa (Heart & Soul)
Harshit Saxena
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Paoli Dum goes naked for 'Choli Ke Peeche'

For a long time Vikram Bhatt has maintained suspense over the backless girl in the poster of his next flick, ‘Hate Story’. Finally, he unveiled the suspense and the bare girl in the picture shows her face. She is none other than the Bengali bombshell Paoli Dum who created ripples in Bengali cinema for her bare dare act in Bengali movie, ‘Chatrak’. The girl’s identity in the bold poster of ‘Hate Story’ was kept under wraps for long. Paoli said, “I had no idea that my character and my identity on the poster would be kept a mystery. When the poster featuring my back was released, a lot of people who knew I was doing the film asked me who was on the poster. I just asked them to wait and watch". Now, Paoli is all set to go naked for an international film, ‘Choli Ke Peeche’. Before ‘Paoli’, ‘Choli Ke Peeche’ was offered to Bong beauties Nadana Sen and Shahana Goswami. But due to nudity both declined the offer. Paoli spoke her heart out her nudity. She said, “I am a performer and when I bare all, it is only for my job. As an actor, I have no inhibitions; I just play a character. But yes, if I am not comfortable with something, I will not do it.” Well, the industry has been a hub of bombshells like Sunny Leone, Poonam Pandey

Vivek Agnihotri asked Paoli to stand naked for HATE STORY

One may accuse the makers of HATE STORY to be going a little overboard here but prod them on and they seem to be quite serious about the comparisons being made. If the unabashed erotic content put on display by debutant Paoli Dam for HATE STORY wasn't enough then here is more. As per director Vivek Agnihotri, she is - hold your breath - the next Kajol in the making and would soon establish her presence as an actress par excellence who won't be restricting herself to only those films that are abound with skin show and foul language.''Vivek's confidence in her stems from the fact that he has seen her award winning work in Bengali cinemas as well and is totally astounded by the range she has shown so far,'' says an assistant of the director, ''When the initial talks were on, he point blank asked her if she was willing to stand naked in front of the camera. The moment she nodded in affirmation without any questions asked, Vivek knew that here was one actress who boasted of a universal cosmopolitan mindset. Though there are many girls willing to drop their clothes, it is rare to find someone who is extremely talented and yet so uninhibited about nudity.'' (glamsham)

Hate Story Official Trailer (2012)

Hate Story Trailer (2012)

The bold and sensational trailer of Paoli Dam starrer 'Hate Story' releases. Here's more

Hindi cinema is breaking barriers like never before. While few film makers continue to run the tried and tested method, there are few who test the norm. Stirring up tremendous buzz is the mystery girl in this brand new bold poster of Vikram Bhatt’s next ‘Hate Story’, directed by Vivek Agnihotri.