Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story acquired a position in the IMDB’s Top Web Series & TV Shows in the world. Col Needham, IMDb Founder, and CEO said worldwide interest in the Indian steaming series “hit an all-time high this year” with fans rating their favorites and helping others discover breakout shows.
Rating of 9.5 out of 10, Scam 1992, a SonyLIV show, has also landed a spot in IMDb’s Top 250 TV series of all time on the 18th spot.
“In fact, our #1 user-rated Indian web series of this year, Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story, has been so popular that it landed a top spot on the IMDb list of the Top 250 TV Series of all-time,” Needham said in a statement.
The top 10 shows listed here have been picked out from IMDb’s Top 250 TV list generated by the website, based on user ratings. The list focuses solely on fiction shows from all over the world. The shows from top to bottom appear on the website in the same order but have different global rankings that keep changing from time to time.
- Band of Brothers- Created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, this miniseries had a short run of ten episodes in 2001 but is still held in high regard when it comes to ranking the best TV shows of all time.
- Breaking Bad- Starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, Breaking Bad had a successful run of six seasons and is often regarded as one of the most influential shows of its era.
- Chernobyl- This limited series on HBO recapped the events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986 and how the USSR dealt with the crisis. Created by Craig Mazin, the five-episode series was praised for its research
- The Wire- Premiering in 2002, the five seasons of The Wire are still seen as the pinnacle of crime drama television and have inspired dozens of shows that tried to ape what they aced.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender- It is often regarded as one of the best animated series of all time. The show centers around the mythology that those who can manipulate all the four elements — water, earth, fire, air – can create harmony between the four nations of the world.
- Game of Thrones- Based on George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, the show followed the books for the first few seasons but went off text in the later seasons.
- The Sopranos- Created by David Chase, The Sopranos, much like The Wire, is often seen as one of the best television shows ever. The six seasons of the show follow Tony Soprano, a mobster who is trying to strike the perfect balance between his work as the head of the Soprano family, and his family life.
- Rick and Morty- The show follows crazy scientist Rick whose shenanigans with grandson Morty often land them both in soup.
- Scam 1992- Scam 1992 is the only Indian series to claim one of the top spots on the list of best TV shows on IMDb. Created by Hansal Mehta, this Pratik Gandhi starrer Sony LIV series released in 2020 and set a new benchmark for web content in India. Based on the true story of Harshad Mehta, Scam 1992 is set in the stock market of the early 1990s that led to the biggest securities scam the country had seen up until then.
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Based on the Fullmetal Alchemist manga series by Hiromu Arakawa, the story follows two brothers who want to restore their bodies after their attempt of bringing their mother back to life fails miserably.
