Harshad Mehta, an Indian stockbroker, who was well known for his wealth and for having been charged with numerous financial crimes that took place in the 1992 securities scam. A scam that made the entire security system of India collapse badly. Now, Hansal Mehta has finally released the trailer of a much-awaited web-series on the 'Bachchan of the stock market' 'Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story'.
The show is adapted from the book 'The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away', written by Sucheta Dalal and her husband Debashis Basu. The web-series trailer follows the life of controversial Harshad Shanti Mehta referred to as 'Big Bull'. In the trailer, Harshad is denoted as fraud, hero, Bachchan of BSE, who takes a flight of 1980's Bombay where he quenches the thirst of the whole country by going deep into the well of the sharemarket. This time, Pratik Gandhi has made his mark in the role of Harshad by adapting his style and greed for creating history. The trailer has unfolds several facts about the late scammer and we can see Rajat Kapoor as an investigation officer in the series. Watch the trailer of Hansal Mehta's 'Scam 1992' -
SonyLiv's 'Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story' Trailer: Hero, Scamster or 'Bachchan of Stock Market'?
Thursday, October 01, 2020 15:48 IST
In December 2019, speaking about comparisons, Hansal Mehta told `Mid Day`, `When they announced their film, we were already shooting. Our approach is different from theirs. I have been told that they've taken the outline of the story and created a work of fiction from it.` Hansel Mehta has said that his project sticks to Sucheta Dalal's book while Abhishek's film is a fictionalized version. More about the Harshad Mehta, well, way before Mehul Choksi and Nirav Modi, late Harshad Mehta, was the man who notoriously scammed the entire country with his stock manipulation scheme and eventually exposing the several loopholes in the Indian banking system.
The series explores a scam orchestrated by Harshad Mehta of Rs 5000 crore in the year 1992 which exposed many loopholes in the functioning of the stock market and banks. 'Scam 1992 - The Harshad Mehta Story' stars Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary, Satish Kaushik, Nikhil Dwivedi, Ananth Mahadevan, Rajat Kapoor, Lalit Parimoo, KK Raina and Sharib Hashmi. 'Scam 1992' is all set to release on SonyLiv, October 9th.
