Hindi Web Series Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story

Scam 1992, The Harshad Mehta Story is the first in the scam series of thrillers brought to the web series scene by Sony Liv. And the next in line is the stamp paper scam of 2003. As the title goes, Scam 1992 traces the rags to riches and then- behind - jail story of the infamous stockbroker of the ’80s and ’90s, Harshad Mehta, who was once entitled the Amitabh Bachchan Amitabh Bachchan was born on October 11, 1942 in A >> Read More... of the Bombay Stock exchange. Those were the times when Mehta ruled the roost in the ‘Dalal Street’ of Bombay. Born into a lower-middle-class family of a failed Gujarati textile trader, Harshad had his eyes set on the sole goal of becoming rich. Crammed into the tiny space of an impoverished apartment were himself and his wife, his parents, and his brother. It is here, in the midst of ostensible poverty, that Harshad plots the plan for his mercurial rise to wealth. Being done with the petty jobs that he had to contend with, Mehta decides to try his luck at the stock market, the one-stop solution for becoming rich in the wink of an eye. He begins a mere jobber with an established broker; once getting the hang of the things, he quits and becomes a broker himself; for him, the risk is the Spice of life.

As Mehta plunges into the tumultuous world of stock trading, he indulges in many underhand activities explicitly banned by law. He deploys insider information to sell or buy stocks preemptively, manipulates the market by involving in operating stocks, and tricking investors into sinking money in his ventures. But to be clear, his growth is not one of a steady trailblazer stride; Mehta loses a substantial sum amounting to 10 lakhs when the bear comes visiting. But not to be cowed down, Mehta starts again from the stump and builds back up when he grows his ‘GrowMore’ consultancy. A reinvigorated Mehta’s first strike was to kill the reigning bear of the BSE, which Mehta victoriously executes, in the process establishing himself as the Mongoose of the Indian Wall Street. Mehta then decides to play big by engaging with the Institutional Investors’ corpus funds. As Mehta expands his horizon with each step, his greed also grows parallelly, so much so that the scale and scope of his illegal dealings become incomparable.

Scam 1992 is also the story of an investigative journalist named Sucheta Dalal as it is the story of Harshad Mehta. The series itself derives its substance from the book written by Sucheta and Debashish Basu. The series is thoroughly researched and carefully written like a scoop that keeps the viewer engaged and entertained and is obviously one of the handfuls of series that has come to grace the Indian web series space worthy of genuine praise in terms of effort and content, not to mention the marvelous making. And hence definitely a must-watch. It is available on Sony Liv in Hindi, Telugu, and Tamil audio streams.