Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story · Season 1 · SonyLIV
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Season 1
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story Season 1 is a MUST-WATCH, BollyMeter 9.2/10. 10 episodes on SonyLIV from 9 October 2020.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Hansal Mehta's reconstruction of the 1992 securities scam is the rare biographical drama that earns its length. Pratik Gandhi's Harshad Mehta is the engine - the stockbroker's volcanic charisma and wilful blindness to consequence drawn without flattery or easy condemnation. The 10-episode structure lets the procedural detail breathe: how bank receipts, RBI loopholes, and a two-year bull run were weaponised before the floor caved. Shreya Dhanwanthary's Sucheta Dalal grounds the investigative half, giving the story a moral counterweight the scammer's arc alone could not carry. The show swept the inaugural Filmfare OTT Awards across 12 categories and reset the benchmark for Indian streaming drama.
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Standout Episodes
The hours worth arguing about - premieres, finales, and the turning points. BollyAI reads the room episode by episode.
- E1Episode 18.6
A sharp pilot that turns market jargon into tension and makes institutional indifference feel like the scam's first accomplice.
The moment: A source whispers that Harshad Mehta might be in serious trouble with SBI, setting up a new mystery.
Full review of E1 → - E2Episode 28.4
A tense consolidation hour that turns debt, family pressure, and national shock into a clear portrait of Harshad performing strength under strain.
The moment: Harshad clears the pending seven‑lakh debt early and offers free tea to restore his reputation.
Full review of E2 → - E3Episode 38.8
Episode 3 turns trust into a loaded word, then shows Harshad building power by hollowing that word out from within.
The moment: Harshad confronts the clerk, demanding accountability for the illegal share sale.
Full review of E3 → - E4Episode 48.7
Episode 4 turns paperwork into menace, exposing Harshad's myth through quiet rooms, dirty credit, and Sucheta's push toward accountability.
The moment: Harshad receives a clean fifty‑crore credit from UCO Bank without collateral.
Full review of E4 → - E5Episode 58.8
A taut procedural hour that turns Harshad's market swagger into liability, then leaves him one desperate week away from collapse.
The moment: Sitaraman is arrested at his son’s tonsure ceremony, exposing the missing 574 crores.
Full review of E5 → - E6Episode 68.8
A crackling newsroom hour where the biggest victory is compromised, and that compromise becomes the episode's sharpest truth.
The moment: Sharad Bellary tells Sucheta five hundred crores are missing from SBI's books.
Full review of E6 → - E7Episode 78.7
Episode 7 turns Harshad's biggest boast into his biggest weakness, then freezes the system just as denial becomes impossible.
The moment: Harshad boasts responsibility for the bull run while plotting a market crash.
Full review of E7 → - E8Episode 88.9
A sharp collapse episode that turns paperwork, silence, and one arrest into the hour where Harshad's myth finally loses oxygen.
The moment: Tyagu dismisses Harshad’s offer with a cold “So close, yet so far.”
Full review of E8 → - E9Episode 97.6
Episode 9 tightens narrative control through directives, surveillance, and custody, making the investigation feel like a scripted funnel.
The moment: The directive that every question in the fraud must lead back to one name, Harshad Mehta, delivered as strategy rather than conclusion.
Full review of E9 → - E10Episode 108.8
A sharp, bruising finale that traps Harshad between his lies and a system he is guilty of exposing.
The moment: Bhushan admits he sold the missing shares, shattering Harshad’s fragile defense.
Full review of E10 →