If it’s anything to go by, the size of an average movie script is 70-90 pages and is shot in 20-30 days for regional cinema,” says Gandhi. “This size of the on-floor script is huge. Thus, the script of Scam runs 550 pages and is shot in 85 days spread over 6 months.
It’s more challenging and satisfying for me,” Mehta explains. “A web series, and especially stories like that of Harshad Mehta, require a certain magnitude of storytelling. Hansal Mehta, Director of the movie Scam 1992. Mehta describes it as a deeply investigative and technical non-fiction book which he had wanted to make into a feature film when he read it somewhere around 2004-05. Scam is based on Sucheta Dala and Debashis Basu’s book The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, and Who Got Away (1993). But one should not get carried away,” says soft-spoken Scam Director, Hansal Mehta about the unprecedented ratings ever received by a show/movie – Indian or otherwise. “What matters is, in the absence of a benchmark to measure the success of a show, these tell you that your show is doing well. Within days of premiering on October 9, Scam rose to be the highest ever rated web series in the world on IMDB. It took the research team 2.5 years to get to those facts and bring them to life for the series,” shares actor Pratik Gandhi, who plays the role of Mehta in Scam. “In one particular scene, a fleet of 15 of these high-end beauties of the 1990s are being flaunted by Harshad Mehta to his guests.
Finding cars like Premiere Padmini, Maruti 1000, Lexus Starlet, and Toyota Sera of the early-90s was a challenge here in the making of the hit web series, Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story. Mumbai is known as much for its local trains as its Jaguars, Lamborghinis, and Porsches.
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