Lucky Baskhar

In Venky Atluri's Lucky Baskhar, a middle-class bank employee breaks bad. It is the '90s, India's stock market on a legendary bull run, and Harsha Mehra (a nod to the real-life fraudster Harshad Mehta) is running an epic stock market scam: funnelling bank deposits into the market, running up the prices and dumping stocks when the frenzy hits the highest. Dulquer Salman plays Baskhar, a cashier at Magadha Bank who enables the scam. He eyes social climbing and wealth, and his journey is framed not just as a financial heist, but as a commentary on societal expectations and the power of money.