EXCLUSIVE: Right here’s your first take a look at actor Ravi Patel (Surprise Girl 1984, Animal Patrol) suited up in Kiss Of The Con Queen, the true crime thriller impressed by the lifetime of accused fraudster Hargobind Tahilramani dubbed the “con queen of Hollywood” after allegedly impersonating film executives in an elaborate and excessive profile fraud scheme.
Directed by Tom Waller (The Cave, The Final Executioner), the pic follows the story of an actor primarily based in Bangkok, Thailand, who’s led to imagine {that a} highly effective feminine Hollywood studio govt desires to contemplate him for a number one function in an upcoming DC Origins present, and is lured to Jakarta, Indonesia for an audition, solely to search out out that the entire thing is an elaborate rip-off when he’s compelled to entrance hundreds of {dollars} in money for flights and permits, on the promise of being reimbursed by the studio. Nonetheless, after uniting with different victims and figuring out the true id of the prison mastermind behind the long-running rip-off, the actor finally ends up conning the Con Queen into giving him precisely what he desires – the breakthrough function he was falsely promised.
Manufacturing on the pic came about final 12 months in Jakarta, Bangkok, Dublin, and Nashville below a SAG-AFTRA Fundamental Settlement simply earlier than the strike. The movie is a multi-territory co-production between Thailand (Tero Leisure PCL), Japan (Yaman Movies), Cambodia (Westec Media), the US (Hawkins FilmWorks), and Eire (De Warrenne Photos). Producers are Waller, Michael Pritchett (The Final Executioner), and Takahiro Yamashita (December, Gensan Punch).
De Warrenne Photos is ready to host a screening in Los Angeles for alleged victims of Tahilramani’s rip-off earlier than a world premiere in Florida subsequent month.
“Over 300 harmless victims within the movie trade have been focused over the course of seven years earlier than the suspect was lastly caught, so this wild story is a must-see cautionary story,” stated Waller.
De Warrenne is a two-part outfit. A part of the corporate, primarily based in Thailand, is greatest identified for dealing with manufacturing companies on worldwide movie shoots just like the Jason Statham-starrer Mechanic: Resurrection in Asia. The corporate can also be liable for native productions like The Cave, a story function in regards to the Thai Cave Rescue. The opposite half, primarily based in Eire, is a straight manufacturing firm.
Additionally starring in Kiss Of The Con Queen are Patrick Bergin, Eoin O’Brien, and widespread Indonesian actor Yayu A.W. Unru (The Final of Us) who died in December. The pic is considered one of his final performances.
Hargobind Tahilramani, the real-life “con queen of Hollywood,” final appeared in a UK court docket in June 2023 when it was dominated the 43-year-old could possibly be extradited to face fees within the US. Tahilramani is accused of conning greater than 300 victims, together with actors and screenwriters out of multiple million {dollars} throughout a multi-year scheme.
Authorities arrested Tahilramani in late November 2020 in Manchester, northern England. Since then, he’s been held at a jail in London. He’s accused of impersonating a number of outstanding Hollywood figures, together with producer Megan Ellison and govt Amy Pascal in cellphone calls, emails, and textual content messages. Prosecutors say Tahilramani, an Indonesian native, would persuade US trade professionals to journey to Indonesia at their very own expense for non-existent initiatives earlier than charging them a raft of charges and bills, which have been by no means repaid.
