Stayed unbiased while playing Harshad Mehta, says actor Pratik Gandhi

 Actor Pratik Gandhi, who plays role of infamous stockbroker Harsh Mehta in web series "Scam 1992: Harsh Mehta Story”, says he h a neutral approach towards character.Directed by Hansal Mehta, 10-episode series traces rags-to-riches story of Harsh Mehta, who single-handedly took Indian stock market to dizzying heights, and his catastrophic downfall.

Gandhi, who started his acting career with Gujarati atre and went on to feature in various films in langu as well as Bollywood movie “Loveyatri”, said he spent a lot of time with director to figure out best way to portray role.

actor said he wanted to bring out every aspect of Harsh Mehta’s personality and leave it to audience to decide if he is a negative or positive character.

I have approached this role without being biased. I h heard a lot of key words about Harsh Mehta in books, documentaries, on Internet, and in script like his passion, greed, a bit of ego, and confidence.

re is a thin difference between confidence and ego. Sometimes he played with ego and sometimes with confidence. I consciously kept it unbiased as a character because it is open for interpretation for audience,Gandhi told PTI in an interview.

Every person has a good and an evil side to m and when playing a real-life character it is important to highlight both, actor ded.Apart from "Scam 1992", a film on Harsh Mehta’s life, “ Big Bull”, is also in works with Abhishek Bachchan playing le.

Gandhi said he is happy that storytellers are venturing into of financial-thrillers.

More such stories should come out, t about this particular scam but about in genre of financial-thriller. t a lot of films are me in this genre in India. It is an interesting genre, it is entertaining and engaging,he said.

Scam 1992: Harsh Mehta Story”, based on journalist Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal's book " Scam", also stars Shreya Dhanwanthary, Sharib Hashmi, Satish Kaushik, Nikhil Dwivedi, Anant Mahevan, among ors.Produced by Applause Entertainment in association with Studio Next, series premiered on SonyLIV on October 9. 

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