Director Shreyansh Pandey, who has helmed the streaming show ‘The Pyramid Scheme’, has shared that he toyed around with the idea for the show for over a decade. Shreyansh Pandey spoke with IANS during the promotions of the show with actors Ranvir Shorey, Paramvir Cheema and Shekhar Suman during the promotions of the show.
He spoke about the number of people affected by such ponzi schemes, and how the actual number can be far higher than the reported numbers given that people, who fall victim to pyramid schemes, do not report about the crime because of shame. He told IANS, “I feel that in the last 20 years, there are more than 5000 companies who have done this.
There are more than 5 crore people with whom this has happened. And this is the number that has been reported. As Sir said, the way they show dreams and you enter that pyramid. After that, when it breaks, you don't have the courage, the courage to go and report a case.
Even to tell your family, friends, or people around you that this has happened to me. So, there are a lot of unreported cases. We did a lot of detailed research”. He further mentioned, “This is a story that has been going on with us since 2011. And we were not able to crack it at the core for a very long time.
And then finally it happened. Even today, when we talk to someone, either that person has seen it directly. Or there are a lot of people in his family, someone's uncle, someone's brother, someone's aunt, sister who have gone through this. Someone has touched this scheme in some form or the other.
It is a personal experience”. Produced by The Viral Fever, created by Shreyansh Pandey, ‘The Pyramid Scheme’ is directed by Ashish R Shukla and Shreyansh Pandey, The series is available to stream on Prime Video.