+ Applause Entertainment’s Scam 1992 The Harshad Mehta Story has emerged the most successful webseries of 2020, wining bother critical and mass acclaim ever since it began streaming in October 2020. Scam 1992 has added yet another feather to its cap as it has been awarded the Best Web Series 2020 at the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2021. The show is based on the book The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away by Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu.
Set in early 90’s Bombay, Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story captures the meteoric rise and fall of Harshad Mehta, the flamboyant big bull of the stock market. When feisty financial journalist Sucheta Dalal exposed him as the man behind India’s biggest financial scam of the time, it shook the nation.
MUMBAI — “Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story,” has been awarded the Best Web Series 2020 at the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival Awards 2021.