Vikram Bhatt has quite obviously taken the young and promising Tia Bajpai under his ample wing. Tia was launched by the filmmaker in Haunted, and he has decided to stick with her again in Hate Story. This despite her last film Lanka, which flopped miserably. What’s more, he is even backing the small budget Hate Story to the hilt, promoting it aggressively.
“Lanka was also Vikram’s film, but he didn’t support it because he didn’t like it. If he has decided to back her and her next film, Hate Story, then it must be because he did like this one,” says a source close to the filmmaker.
In fact, Vikram is so positive about the film that he has assured the actress as well as the film’s director Vivek Agnihotri about being available for whatever help they would need during the film’s promotion and marketing.