NEW DELHI :
Aditya Birla-owned content production house Applause Entertainment that announced Scam 2003, a sequel to its successful crime drama on SonyLIV, Scam 1992- The Harshad Mehta Story, has said that theatre artiste Gagan Dev Riar will play the lead in the new series.
The second season of the franchise will feature the story of the 2003 stamp paper scam by Abdul Karim Telgi. The show will be adapted from the Hindi book Reporter ki Diary authored by journalist Sanjay Singh, who is credited with breaking the story of the scam back in the time.
The series will be helmed by Hansal Mehta, also the director of the first instalment and Tushar Hiranandani. Marathi film writer Kiran Yadnyopavit, has been roped in to write and develop the story along with Singh.
Telgi, born in Khanapur in Karnataka, is known as the mastermind behind one of India’s most ingenious scams spread across multiple states whose value was estimated around ₹20,000 crore.
To be sure, while most OTT platforms are investing in long-form series that span multiple seasons, such as Sacred Games, Mirzapur, Four More Shots Please!, Aarya and so on, few are building franchises around a theme across different stories. While Amazon Prime Video brought out crime thriller Breathe, Disney+ Hostar has Criminal Justice.
According to media consulting firm Ormax, Scam 1992 ranks as the most-liked Indian web…
