Bombay in the 1980s and 90s, a stockbroker with an outsized appetite for risk, and a stock market that climbed higher and faster than anyone expected it could. SCAM 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story turns that real financial saga into a biography-crime drama that runs deep rather than fast.
What is SCAM 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story about?
The series follows the rise of Harshad Mehta, a broker who figures out how to move money through the banking system in ways regulators never anticipated, and rides that discovery into a level of wealth and influence that makes him a household name. As his methods pull more and more of the market upward with him, the show tracks the web of bankers, officials, and journalists who either enable him, chase him, or both. The back half turns to the unraveling: the scrutiny that catches up with a scheme built on momentum, and the reckoning that follows for a man who briefly reshaped how an entire market behaved. Set against a Bombay that is itself transforming through economic liberalization, the series treats its financial mechanics as central to the drama rather than background noise.
About the cast
The series is built around Harshad Mehta as its central figure, tracing his transformation from an ambitious young broker into a market force few could ignore, and then into the subject of the country's biggest financial investigation of its era. The surrounding cast of bankers, regulators, and reporters gives the story its texture, each pulled toward Mehta's orbit for a different reason — profit, ambition, or the pursuit of the story itself.
Context & significance
SCAM 1992 belongs to a wave of scripted television built directly from real financial and business events, treating the mechanics of markets and banking with the same care most crime dramas give to a heist. Its 1980s and 90s Bombay setting captures a period of major economic change, and the show leans into procedural detail — how the fraud worked, who noticed, and why it took as long as it did — rather than simplifying the story into a straightforward morality tale. Episodes run around 54 minutes, giving the more technical financial threads room to be explained clearly.
Watching SCAM 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story on Ktime
SCAM 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, making the series' financial detail easy to follow for Farsi-speaking viewers either way. Watching only requires a free K-Time account, and the platform's Farsi-first design lets viewers pick up an episode exactly where they left off across devices.