Hansal Mehta announces 'Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga'
Acclaimed director Hansal Mehta has unveiled the third installment of his successful Scam series, titled, Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga. The announcement was made alongside the release of the show's first promo on Thursday. "Sc3m is back! Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga, coming soon on @sonylivindia #Scam2010OnSonyLIV," wrote Mehta. This series will be based on Tamal Bandyopadhyay's book Sahara: The Untold Story and produced by Applause Entertainment in collaboration with Studio Next.
'Scam 2010' to chronicle Subrata Roy's journey
Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga will trace the journey of businessman Subrata Roy from obscurity to prominence and then controversies. In the early 2000s, Roy was embroiled in a series of accusations including chit-fund manipulations and fake investors, leading to his arrest in 2014. An estimated ₹25,000 crore remains unclaimed with government authorities due to this scam. "Scam is not just a franchise for me. It is a chronicling of our times," Mehta expressed his enthusiasm for the project.
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'Scam 2010' follows successful predecessors
Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga follows the previous installments Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story and Scam 2003: The Telgi Story. These earlier series focused on Harshad Mehta's rise and fall in the stock market and Abdul Karim Telgi's counterfeit empire, respectively. Like its predecessors, Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga aims to shed light on infamous financial frauds in India. The series will be exclusively available on SonyLIV.
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Goodreads describes Sahara as, "[It's] based on painstaking research to demystify India's most secretive and largely unlisted conglomerate, the Sahara India Pariwar. It also delves into the group's ongoing legal battle with the market regulator." "He is the Robin Hood of a country where only 35% of the adult population has access to formal banking services. This India and its millions of illiterate poor depositors stand in awe and admiration of him. But does he also exploit them?"
