Filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s most anticipated Scoop records the first collaboration with Netflix India. However the director seeked to collab with the platform for the ultimate hit Scam: 1992.
As per the reports, Scam 1992 was one of the most celebrated serries which did attempts to collab with Netflix however things didn’t pan out.
In conversation with Indian Express, Monika Shergill, Vice President, Content, averred that every show have their crafted destiny. She said, “I mean, would we have wanted it to be on Netflix? Absolutely yes. It’s a great show, it’s a defining show and it would have found a very natural home on Netflix. But I think every project, story has its own destiny. There are so many things that you admire about what’s on other services; other services might be thinking, ‘Oh this title from Netflix could have been on ours.’ It’s meant to be like that, it had to be on SonyLIV.”
She added, “As Hansal said earlier, it is that moment in time when there is a shift happening, when you are getting an opportunity to tell three-dimensional stories, create that world… It is not linear, flat.“Most movies in India have been linear, single layered, but what is happening now with the new medium is the ability to expose audience to this new world… So, Scam was brilliant, and people are absolutely also going to love Scoop.”
Hansal Mehta said, “it wasn’t for Scam, there would not be Scoop”. The filmmaker adds every story have different path “irrespective of where it goes. “That progression, that evolution is important. That stage in the evolution, from Scam to Scoop, has been facilitated and it’s a bigger role… For a storyteller, your previous story plays a catalyst to tell the next story and the next story finds its home,” he further added.
The series is inspired by Jigna Vora’s biographical book Behind The Bars In Byculla: My Days in Prison, recreated by Hansal Mehta and co-writer Mrunmayee Lagoo. The series features Karishma as Jagruti Pathak, a crime journalist, who later becomes a murder suspect.
