Spread out in ten long episodes, the show is so exhaustive and detailed, that it seems director Hansal Mehta and his writers (Sumit Purohit, Vaibhav Vishal and Karan Vyas) televised every page of the book. The story is driven from her perspective as her voice-over regularly narrates the parts where she is not present. As Harshad is fast scaling up, a Times of India journalist Sucheta Dalal (Shreya Dhanwanthary) is hot on his trail, but getting any evidence against him is a challenge. He gets some of the biggest banks involved in his get-quick-reach schemes by bribing his way through corrupt channels. Harshad, who starts off as a petty ‘Jobber’, soon starts his own consulting firm named ‘Growmore’ and begins milking every opportunity to beat the system to his own benefit. Digitisation was more than a decade away and this meant physical entries of all monetary transactions that left huge loopholes in the system, waiting to be exploited. And this is the 80s when the BSE functioned like a fish market where ‘jobbers’ deployed by big brokers, physically cracked deals worth crores for them. Smart, shrewd and a fast-learner, Harshad soon becomes the Dalaal Street wizard, who knows how to play the market for his own gains. But Harshad’s dreams are far bigger to be contained here and after doing all sorts of odd jobs, Harshad realises that the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) is his ticket to super success. Living in a cramped one room apartment in Mumbai’s Gujarati dominated suburb of Ghatkopar, the Mehtas are a regular Indian family. Just like every rags to riches story, Harshad Mehta’s story too begins quite humbly.

REVIEW: In his opening scene itself, director Hansal Mehta shows us a huge hoarding that screams, ‘Harshad Mehta is a liar.’ But it’s not that simple and with each passing scene, it becomes amply clear that you will get a crash course in bulls, bears and banking before you find out the hows, whats and whys of Mehta’s massive scam.

STORY: Based on the book written by former Times of India journalist Sucheta Dalal and her husband Debashis Basu, ‘Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story’, chronicles the meteoric rise and the inadvertent fall from grace of the controversial stockbroker Harshad Mehta - the man who became the face of India’s 1992 stock market scam worth 5,000 crore rupees that rocked the nation.

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