Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story leads to a Meme Storm!

Youngun India
3 min readNov 19, 2020

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Dear Commerce students, remember Harshad Mehta’s scam — mentioned in all books but never discussed in detail?

Well, our OTT platforms haven’t failed us and this time brought to us the story of India’s one of the biggest financial scams to ever take place: the Harshad Mehta Scam.

Lala, if you haven’t watched Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story yet, yaar kya kar rahe ho bhai?

Harshad Mehta, a recent web series, has caught the attention of the viewers with its crisp direction, out-of-the-box casting and a gripping storyline.

Based on the 1992 Stock Market fraud committed by Harshad Mehta, this web series is an adaptation of the book, The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away, written by journalists Sucheta Dalal and Debashish Basu.

In fact, this web series is currently the highest-rated Hindi language Indian show on IMDb with a whopping rating of 9.5 out of 10.

Apart from the series itself, what garnered a lottt of interest was its theme song!

By now, it must be evident that Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story successfully managed to grasp the millennials’ attention.

And whenever that happens, it leads to…MEMES!

As always, the internet was rife with memes as people slowly discovered this series.

Meanwhile people who studied science: Bhai ye stock market kaise chal raha hai?

Well, isn’t this true?

SBI Employee: Arey mori maiyaa!

Through witty one-liners and memes, Harshad Mehta web series rose to popularity both, on and off the internet!

With memes, any and everything can go viral!

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