Hansal Mehta believes the most powerful stories are found in the everyday life. After giving us stories of real-life characters in Shahid (2013), Aligarh (2015) and Omerta (2017), the director has now explored the rise and fall of stockbroker Harshad Mehta in Scam 1992. "I think real-life characters find me; I like to relive their journeys through the stories I tell," begins Mehta.

The director wanted to make a film that demystified the 1992 stock market scam as early as 2012. However, the plan was put on the back-burner as he trained his focus on Shahid. A call from Sameer Nair of Applause Entertainment in 2017 made him revisit the subject. "A story like this has much to say and the long-format storytelling does justice to it," he says of the SonyLIV show that is based on Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal's book, The Scam: Who Won, Who Lost, Who Got Away.