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| Harshad (Center) with Ashwin (Left) and Bhusan (Right) [Scam 1992] |
It's a helluva captivating series and there is no spoiler alert here. It is because the assumption is you have already watched it. And if not, you should actually. So bye, bye!- and come back soon after watching.
I have tried to explain − am I, really? you will know − this dipshit series in 10 headings because the series have got 10 episodes. At least I should not fall short in any way, so I believe. More to it, that way this article looks a bit appealing too.
Realistic because it
was real
When you are along the way in it, you don’t feel that it’s
filmed. God, how many old Indians are there who are the perfect actors and it
appears that nobody has ever seen them before in screens. They are new and original. From the clerks to the bankers,
to the CEOs to the managers and leaders to high officials, they are so real
that you don’t ever think there is/was someone else for everybody in real life.
Organic because it is
uniquely itself
It’s not a made up story as it really occurred at some point in India. The plots and events are already a known history if you have spared some time reading the book on the eponymous title. Your mouth dries as hell to see the organic smartness of that Gujrati guy called Harshad who lived an active life mostly in 80s and 90s.
Just because it does
justice to the book
The TOI financial editor Sucheta Dalal came up with a book
based on her findings and articles. The selections of a number of characters to
match the ones in the book surely have been so demanding. Once the Hanshal
Mehta team selected them, they have done a perfect justice to each character
they belong to.
Rousing as story keeps
on unfolding so very surreptitiously
The transition between even A and B is so carefully crafted that your eyes remain glued to the screen and your sense would not know this is going to be the start of another isolated event. Holly whistling Christ, I am so in love with that music! Suspense that looms all over once it starts playing is simply inexplicable. It splendidly shows how a middle-income commoner raises to be enthroned into the kingdom of stock market and then money market. At the same time, it charmingly allows us to peep into the fragility of Indian Banking securities. It surprisingly keeps you busy in showing how one single wag can rig the market economy just by exploiting the loopholes, and political connections whenever necessary.
Riveting as it chafes
the intrinsic human greed
Everybody in this world wants to be successful and rich.
They want money and they want it so bad they are ready to exchange almost
everything for it. Only some people are capable of doing it; I mean they earn
real money in real life. Jesus, they are like some freaking minting machine.
But many of us remain in the cozy sofa of a bedroom to watch their success
story many years after it is scripted and filmed. For us it is engrossing
because we tend to keep ourselves in their shoes. Whoa wait! Does not that give
a sense of peace to your mind when you try to be Harshad Fucking Mehta deep
into your fantasy while watching it? Well not towards the end, I mean up to
episode 8. So, this story scratches the greed that we, as a human being, have
inherently as the important character. We try to satiate that greed, if not in
real life, by watching someone else doing what we want but can’t. Besides,
money stories are always appealing to the human mind.
Technical as it should
be
You know, if you are not into this financial shit or let’s
say if you have passed your high school accounting course just by reciting the
answers of the previous papers, dang! It’s very painful for you to watch this
series. Same thing happened to me. I am like gaping and frowning each time they
use jargons like GSL, BR or some bonds, holdings or debentures. Those are just
the words for me with a wide dark void of nothingness. So at those times, you
just try to scrutinize the subtitles or maybe you should get a time to have a
good journey into examining the detailed facial expression of the people in the
screen, exploring what is there in the background, spotting who has moles in
their face of how big size, and so on. But yeah, it’s always good to know some
terms that keep on floating in your real life. Series won’t be teaching you
that, it will just make an initial scratch to your mind and you have to dig in
the other sources to quench your curiosity.
Inspiring if you are in the market
For a market boy, the series is astoundingly inspiring. You can find the dialogues of motivation every now and then. You can see the courage of the protagonist every next moment. If you have to earn the money then you have to take the risk, and if you have to take the risk why do small jobs? Because risk is for the greater good. It very well inspires to be ambitious and at the same time teaches you not to be so very ambitious that one day in chasing your dream you are again brought all the way to the point where you started.
Touchingly moralistic
as it gives lessons after lessons
Money is necessary but is never sufficient. People keep running for the money till the end of their life and along the painstaking excursion happiness is but a myth. Money can buy connections but in the end the very bought-in connections conspire to destroy you. So, always trust the in-born connections. And most importantly, it saves a lot of people or even the whole country if a single person happen to be honest amidst the web of crookedness.
I am too exhausted to come up with two more adjectives. I leave that task to you because I want interactive readers. Let’s see who responds in the comments. TA DA!😑😇
Oh wait a moment the IMDB rating for this series “Scam 1992”
is 9.4. If I am the rater or whatever they call people who give a rating, it
would be 9.9. The last 0.1 is for yet another series that is to come, well we
can hope for that. After all, some series or movies have to get the full marks.
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