Published 16:22 IST, August 20th 2020

'Scam 1992' star cast, release date, plot and other details about the series

The teaser of 'Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story' was dropped yesterday. From star cast to the story behind the scam, here is all you need to know about it.

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On Sunday, August 16, makers of an upcoming web-series, Scam 1992: Harsh Mehta Story, dropped its first teaser on internet.  upcoming web-series, directed by National-Award winner Hansal Mehta, will follow  life of Harsh Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took stock market to dizzying heights and his catastrophic downfall. Here is all you need to kw about star cast, release date and story of series.

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'Scam 1992' star cast

ensemble star cast of series will feature Pratik Gandhi, Shreya Dhanwanthary and Sharib Hashmi, in le characters. Pratik Gandhi, who rose to fame with a Gujarati film Bey Yaar, will be portraying character of Harsh Mehta.

On or side, Shreya Dhanwanthary, a director-actor, will play role of a  journalist. Shreya has several critically acclaimed web series in her repertoire, including Lies Room and Family Man. series will also see Nikhil Dwivedi, Rajat Kapoor, KK Raina, Anant Mahevan, Satish Kaushik and Lalit Parimoo. 

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Watch teaser below:

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'Scam 1992' release date

Scam 1992: Harsh Mehta Story will start streaming on OTT platform SonyLiv. makers have t revealed release details as of w. makers are yet to release trailer of web-series.

Talking about plot of series, it will be inspired by business journalist Debashis Basu & his wife Sucheta Dalal's book named Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away. Stockbroker Harsh Mehta, who was popularly kwn as ‘Amitabh Bachchan of Stock Market’, was named and charged with financial crimes that took place in 1992 securities scam. 

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series wrapped its schedule on March 2, 2020, a few weeks before nationwide lockdown was anunced. In a post, director Hansal Mehta stated that team shot for 85 days spanning six months.

Revealing more details about project, he ded that script of 550+ ps will feature more than 170 characters and 200+ locations. "It was tough but eventually satisfying", re one of lines in his caption.

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16:22 IST, August 20th 2020