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Genre
Financial thriller
Biography
Drama
Based on 1992 Indian stock market scam
Written by Sumit Purohit
Saurav Dey
Vaibhav Vishal
Karan Vyas
Directed by Hansal Mehta
Jai Mehta
Starring
Pratik Gandhi
Shreya Dhanwanthary
Hemant Kher
Satish Kaushik
Music by Achint Thakkar
Country of origin India
Original language Hindi
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 10
Production
Cinematography Pratham Mehta
Editors Kunal Walve
Sumit Purohit
Running time 42–60 minutes
Production companies Studio NEXT
Applause Entertainment
Distributor SonyLIV
Release
Original network SonyLIV
Original release 9 October 2020
The Harshad Mehta Story, also known as Scam 1992, is an Indian Hindi-language biographical financial thriller that can be watched online at SonyLIV and is co-directed by Hansal Mehta and Jai Mehta. [1] The series is an adaptation of the 1992 book The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away by journalists Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu. It is based on the Indian stock market scam that year, which several stockbrokers participated in, including Harshad Mehta. [2] Written by Sumit Purohit, Saurabh Dey, Vaibhav Vishal, and Karan Vyas, the screenplay and dialogue.
It stars Pratik Gandhi as the protagonist Harshad Mehta, with Shreya Dhanwanthary appearing in a parallel lead role, as Sucheta Dalal. The series also features Satish Kaushik, Anant Mahadevan, Rajat Kapoor, K K Raina, Lalit Parimoo, Hemant Kher and Nikhil Dwivedi in pivotal roles. The series focuses on Harshad Mehta’s life story, his meteoric rise and the subsequent downfall.
Originally produced by Sameer Nair of Applause Entertainment, Hansal Mehta, worked for three years in writing the script consisting of 550 pages.[3] The project was officially announced in December 2019, with principal shoot beginning following its announcement. Filmed across 200 locations in Mumbai, within 85 days, the shooting was wrapped up in March 2020. The cinematography was handled by Pratham Mehta and the series was edited by Sumit Purohit and Kunal Walve. Achint Thakkar composed the background score.
Scam 1992 was premiered on SonyLIV on 9 October 2020. The series eventually received praise from the performances of the cast members, writing and the major technical aspects.[4] It became the most viewed web series on the streaming platform.[5]
In March 2021, SonyLiv and Applause Entertainment announced the second installment of the franchise titled Scam 2003 based on 2003 Stamp Paper Scam. It is to be directed by Hansal Mehta
Episodes
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No. Title Directed by Written by Original release date
1 “Risk Se Ishq” Hansal Mehta, Jai Mehta Sumit Purohit, Saurav Dey 9 October 2020
The episode begins with Sucheta Dalal narrating the rise of the Indian economy and the Bombay Stock Exchange in the 1990s. On 22 April 1992, Sharad Bellary, an employee of State Bank of India comes to the Times of India office to report about a fraud worth ₹500 crores. He reports it to Sucheta (Shreya Dhanwanthary) and tells that Harshad Mehta (Pratik Gandhi) is behind the fraud. In the early years, Harshad lived in a middle-class family with his wife Jyoti, brother Ashwin, father Shantilal and mother Rasilaben. Shantilal owned a cloth business but was not so successful. So Harshad had to do some odd jobs to take care of the family. He got frustrated with the money problem. So he thought of working in the share market. He got a job as a jobber in the Bombay Stock Exchange. He befriended Bhushan Bhatt, who taught him some of the basics. Harshad struggled on the first day, but he went on to become one of the best jobbers in the market. Then he began to collect insider information, which helped him to target certain stocks to make profits. But he wanted to increase his profit. So he quit his job and opened his own trading account with his brother Ashwin, which made his father frustrated. Later, Ashwin gets married and the whole family shifts to a new apartment. To increase profit, Harshad began spreading fake insider information about the stocks which he targeted. In this way, he managed to win the support of Pranav Sheth, one of the bulls of BSE who was clearly impressed with his skills. In 1982, the market crashed on Black Friday due to the actions of the BSE Bear Cartel and Ajay Kedia and Harshad and his brother had to deal with a loss of ₹10 lakh.
They are able to settle a part of their debt with family gold. Harshad’s trading account remains suspended until the full amount is returned. Before his father’s death, Harshad had vowed he would never give up on the Bombay stock exchange. After his father’s death, Ashwin informs Harshad that he is planning on leaving for Sri Lanka to find a job. Frustrated by his inability to perform in the stock market, Harshad decides to start his own consulting business, through which he will earn money through commissions. They name their consulting firm Growmore and first target the tea market. Africa, the largest tea producer, has reduced its tea production due to unseasonal rainfall, which will actually benefit Indian tea companies. They manage to settle their debt and regain access to their trading accounts. The firm reaches out to many potential clients to open accounts with them so that they can use surplus funds in the stock market under their portfolio management scheme with the promise of good service and higher returns. In six months, they have several home-grown clients with whom he impressed corporate clients with the help of Pranav. While Sucheta was learning about the stock market concepts Harshad was able to expand their business and get hold of Bushan. Following the assassination of Indira Gandhi, her son Rajiv Gandhi is appointed as the prime minister of India. Manu Mundra believes the market is going to crash, Pranav Seth believes the same but Harshad remains optimistic. Harshad believes in the ongoing liberalization policies and buys all he can without a backup plan. They decide to invest in oil and petroleum companies such as Indrol, Zuari Agro, and SPIC because they are cheap and believe that they will surge. As a means of destroying Harshad’s reputation, Manu Mundra creates a perception that Harshad has lost more than a crore, which will cause traders to sell Harshad’s stocks. As soon as he learns about it, Harshad decides to pay all his dues in advance.