Release Year: 2020 Platform: SonyLIV Genre: Biographical Drama | Financial Thriller Language: Hindi
We know Harshad falls. History tells us that. But the show makes us wish he wouldn't. Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story -2020- S01 ...
The show is directed by Tushar Mehta and Apoorva Lakhia, and produced by Hansal Mehta and Tushar Mehta. 📺 Series Overview: Scam 1992 – The Harshad
Key highlights:
But the second half is a brutal dissection of hubris. Harshad’s greed becomes insatiable. He abandons his loyal wife (brilliantly played by Shreya Dhanwanthary as Jyoti) and his ethical compass. The same newspapers that called him a wizard now call him a villain. The 1992 Bombay riots serve as a harrowing backdrop, isolating him in a city that has turned against him. The final episode, showing his death in prison (fortuitously, the show released before his actual death in 2001, but the narrative implies the decay), is not a victory lap for justice; it is a melancholy sigh. The show is directed by Tushar Mehta and
1. The Origin Story Based on the book The Scam: From Harshad Mehta to Ketan Parekh by journalists Sucheta Dalal and Debashis Basu, the show does a masterful job of simplifying complex financial crimes. It explains how Mehta exploited systemic loopholes in the banking sector to siphon money into the stock market, driving up prices of shares like Associated Cement Company (ACC) by nearly 4,400%.
Rating: 9.6/10 on IMDb (at launch), making it one of India's highest-rated series 📉 The Story: From "Big Bull" to Downfall