Even if you have or have not invested your money in the share market, everyone has come across the name Harshad Mehta when it comes to stocks and shares. Have you ever heard of his story? Well, Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story directed by Hansal Mehta, brings back to life the King of the Dalal street, the 'Amitabh Bachchan of the Stock market in the 90's' so to say. The Sony LIV web series produced by Applause Entertainment that is now streaming on the OTT platform, titled Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story gives the audience exactly what the title has to offer- the true story of the Big Bull of Dalal Street.
The series is a dramatic representation of the book The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away by financial journalists Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu. Hansal Mehta’s Scam 1992 opens with a Dalal, played by Shreya Dhanwanthary, receiving a tip from an SBI official about a ‘ghotala’ that involves Rs 500 Crore. Both the nervousness on the man’s face (Sharib Hashmi) and the mammoth amount sets Dalal and her partner Debashish on the hunt of a story which broke the biggest scam of the time, bringing to light the unholy nexus between Indian and foreign banks, financial institutions, godmen and the senior government functionaries.
Based on the book The Scam, the Sony LIV series produced by Applause Entertainment revolves around the story a boy named Harshad Mehta played by Pratik Gandhi, who belongs to a lower-middle-class Gujarati family, but eventually becomes the Most Wanted man in the country, with several agencies searching for him. He has immense love for the sport cricket, but lacks interest in pursuing his education, or studying for that matter. Harshad eventually steps into the world of stocks and shares, from where he starts building an empire for himself. Harshad manages to find the loopholes in the system and ultimately, this scheming genius becomes the King of the Stock market. The story of Harshad takes an interesting turn when a journalist receives a tip-off about a Rs 500 Crore scam, which exposes not only Mehta but also gets him into series trouble.