Hansal Mehta, known for his social as well as political depicting movies, is now releasing a web-series, named Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta story.The plot of the web series is based on the business journalist Sucheta Dalal and her husband Debashis Basu’s book ‘The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away.’
On 1st October the makers released the trailer. The trailer shows the glimpse of stockbroker Harshad Mehta portrayed by actor Pratik Gandhi. In the trailer, the story summaries the character’s whole life, from chawl to the stock market billionaire and then to jail. Trailer begins with people asking, “Who is Harshad Mehta?”, then the story unfolds. The whole trailer takes us to a chaotic ride, where a common man rises up to a level and ends up committing a scam of Rs 5,000 crores. It ends with outrage and the chase to find the criminal. Rajat Kapoor will be seen as CBI officer investigating the case.The whole series is set in Bombay during the era of 1980s.
Watch the trailer here :
The star cast of the series will also feature Shreya Dhanwanthary and Sharib Hashmi, in the lead characters. The web series is all set to release on Sony LIV, on 9th October.