''Scam 2003: The Telgi Story'' is a 2023 Indian

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-language biographical

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streaming television series on SonyLIV directed by

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, with Hansal Mehta serving as the co-director. Based on a true story of

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s committed by Abdul Karim Telgi in early 2000s, the series is inspired from Sanjay Singh's book ''Telgi Scam: Reporter's ki Diary''. It is the second installment in Scam franchise followed by ''

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''. It stars Gagan Dev Riar as the protagonist Abdul Karim Telgi with

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and Shaad Randhawa in pivotal roles. The first 5 episodes of the series released on 1 September 2023 via SonyLIV and the remaining 5 released on 5 November 2023.

Premise

It follows the real-life story of Abdul Karim Telgi who was involved in the 2003 stamp paper counterfeiting scandal worth of INR 30,000 crores.

Cast

* Gagan Dev Riar as Abdul Karim Telgi * Hemang Vyas as Kaushal Jhaveri *

as Suryapratap Gehlot *

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as Shaukat *

as Nafisa *

as Durgesh Bharade * Shaad Randhawa as Sheikh *

Shashank Ketkar Shashank Ketkar (born 15 September 1985) is a Marathi television and theater actor predominantly working in the Marathi. He is best known for his role as Shree on the daily soap ''Honar Sun Me Hya Gharchi''. Personal life Shashank Ketkar wa ...

as Jayant Karmarkar aka JK * Nikhil Ratnaparkhi as Advocate Ganesh Kamble * Dinesh Lal Yadav as Pramod Jaisingh * Sameer Dharmadhikari as Tukaram * Salim Siddiqui as Vitthal * Bharat Dabholkar as Jadhav * Aniruddh Roy as Inspector Balekundri *

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as Garima Talpade * Mohd Yusuf Khan as Suleiman *

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as Inspector Madhukar Dombe * Kirandeep Kaur as bar dancer Parveen *

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as Commissioner of Police Jagdish Suri (based on R S Sharma) * Iravati Harshe as DCP Malti Halani

Episodes

Production

Development

The series was first officially announced on 24 March 2022, by SonyLIV and Applause Entertainment.

Filming

The series officially started filming from April 2022.

Marketing

On 25 May 2022, SonyLIV first announced the series officially in their YouTube channel. The

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with a release date was announced on 4 August 2023.

Litigation

In December 2022, Mumbai Court refused to halt the publication of the web series plead by Sana Irfan Talikoti, Telgi's daughter who filed a lawsuit to get a restraining order against the web series' release. Sana has requested an injunction to prevent its distribution, arguing that the project's makers did not have the family's approval before moving forward. Applause Entertainment Pvt Ltd, its director Hansal Mehta, general manager Prasoon Garg, and Sony Liv were all named defendants in the lawsuit. Sana claims in her lawsuit that the series is based on a book that contained factual errors. She asserted that the web series infringed the family's rights to secrecy, decency, and respect.

Release

The first part with 5 episodes was released on 1 September 2023 via SonyLIV. The second part with the remaining 5 episodes was released on 3 November 2023.

Reception

The series received generally positive reviews. Review aggregator website

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assigned 67% "fresh" rating based on 6 reviews.

References

External links

*{{IMDb title, tt28804856
''Watch Scam 2003''
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