Karan Singh Grover seems all set to take over a bold avatar yet again in his second outing in Bollywood. If sources are to be believed, the handsome actor has bagged a lead role in the third edition of bold franchise, Hate Story 3.

Hate Story earlier helmed by Bhatts created ripples for its unusually bold storyline and erotic scenes. The first installment had Bengali siren, Paoli Dam spreading her seductive charm while Hate Story 2 featured Surveen Chawla who too let loose her inhibitions for the movie.

Now Hate Story 3 is rumoured to take off with Karan Singh Grover as the main lead and joining him as femme fatale would be Zarine Khan of Veer fame. Keeping in mind the franchise’s fixation to have two male leads, the third one will reportedly have Sharman Joshi too as the other lead.

While Karan’s debut movie, Alone with rumoured girlfriend Bipasha Basu sank without a trace, we feel Hate Story 3 may perhaps give his Bollywood career the much need push. But then with the franchise of Hate Story being women-centric, we wonder if Karan would have a meaty role.

Karan remained unavailable for comment.