Complaint Details

Status	:	Closed
Complaint No	:	0080696/2016
Category	:	Entertainment & Recreation
Date	:	06-09-2016
Subject Line	:	Acting role and Money fraud
Complainant	:	Himanshu Prasad
Address	:	D - 62/63, Pramukhdham society, Opp - Yash complex, Gotri, Vadodara
Complainee	:	Not Applicable
Address	:

Complaint Details
I came in contact with a person named Eklavya Sakpal on quikr.com who claims to be Casting director. When I contacted him he offered me a role in a movie Mahabharatha.This took place in Feb., 2015. His call came on my phone 08146050736 after 4 days of contacting him and he was asking for a sum of 3.2 lakh for a Hard disk drive of my portfolio. I did not understood what did a hard disk for portfolio mean. He told that my portfolio was to be shot in Hyderabad. When I did not had that much money he told me to give 1.6 lakh. Of which 1.4 lakh was transferred to his Cousin’s bank account(for which the receipt has been added in attached documents) in Mumbai. The following day I travelled to Vadodara for a photoshoot and I offered him 20 thousand rupees in cash when I reached Mumbai. He picked me up at Andheri West Railway station. After the photoshoot was over at his personal studio in Andheri West he told me to get ready to get training for the role of Krishna in Mahabharatha after 15 days.This was scheduled to be for 45 days and then the final shooting would start in October 2015. But the shoot never started and I came to know he defrauded me.
When I called him after 15 days from my home in Vadodara he told me that I would have to wait for next year or 2017 or may be 2018. He told that it is a 200 crore movie and he offered me a 17 minute role.
Then he made up many stories and was bluffing me on phone. He never picks up his phone now and has informed me that I can do anything but will never get the money back.

He talks very intelligently and cunningly and in a very toned voice that can convince anyone.If you still call him he will make thousands of stories and will convince you that everything will take place on time and date but he is a fraud. Even if he is a casting director in Hindi movie industry he has done a fraud with me!

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