Scam Series ‘Scam 2003 director Hansal Mehta shares his successful journey in films
Scam Series ‘Scam 2003 director Hansal Mehta shares his successful journey in films
Filmmaker Hansal Mehta, is basking on the success of his recently released second season of his ‘Scam’ series – ‘Scam 2003: The Telgi Story’.
It is Hansal’s inner feeling that the medium of OTT too will go down the path of surfeit
like its predecessor television.
Hansal returns with the ‘Scam’ series after almost 3 years.
The first season of the show, which featured Pratik Gandhi in the titular role of stock market scamster Harshad Mehta, released in 2020 and turned out to be a massive success.
Hansal, as the creative director on ‘Scam 2003: The Telgi Story’ this time, revealed to a news agency that it’s the nature of
commercialism and market forces that if something succeeds, that success has to be recreated in a bid to make more money out of it.
Adding that people repeat and make it a formula until it fails then, they have to do something new. This is not only limited to films as a business, it’s there everywhere and that’s because of the market forces.
The director of ‘Aligarh’ then cited an example- If a personal computer at a certain price point is doing very well in the market then 20 other manufacturers of personal computers will try selling their machines at different price points.
He further mentioned that the only thing that he finds different in the industry that it’s very volatile, you can never gauge or predict what the audience will like or the consumer behaviour in this case will be. What they embrace today they might not embrace tomorrow but is the high probability that they would embrace it later.
He further cited the success of ‘Gadar 2’ as an example. If ‘Gadar 2’ came out in the late 2000s or in the early 2010s, he feels that it would not have garnered the kind of success that it has seen now. But because the film cultivated a legacy of over 20 years, people wanted to watch that film in the theatres when it was released.
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News Edit K.V.Raman
