scam 1992: the harshad mehta story is an indian hindi-language drama web-series directed by hansal mehta. it is based on the 1992 indian stock market scam that was committed by stockbroker harshad mehta. the series is based on the book "the scam: who won, who lost, who got away" which was written by journalist sucheta dalal and debashish basu. it stars pratik gandhi, sharib hashmi, shreya dhanwanthary, hemant kher and nikhil dwivedi. the series premiered on sonyliv on 9 october 2020. the series is currently the highest rated hindi-language indian web series on imdb with a rating of 9.6 out of 10.