Amy Officer's daughter duped by money-for-roles cinema scam

The cash-rich Tamil cinema industry may have given the ticket to stardom to many but also has many untold stories of several aspiring stars falling prey to the con skills of unscrupulous elements.
In the latest incident of duping that became public, a 32 year-old director who lured aspirants by promising roles in his film for a price tag has landed in the police net after his con script took an ‘unexpected twist’!
Police last week swooped on the director, Aravind G Mehta, after a complaint from an Army officer whose daughter was tricked by him. Following his arrest, many more of his victims are flocking to the police commissionerate with similar complaints of cheating. Mehta, who was also running a film school, had allegedly duped the Army officer's daughter of Rs 4.5 lakh with the promise of making her the female lead in his Tamil film. But he could not keep his word and turned a villain in the eyes of the 'investor'.
Demanding money from the gullible, Mehta, a native of Tiruchirappalli and a product of the Taramani Film Institute in the city, managed to collect a few lakhs of Rupees for a film he had proposed to make. Four persons, including two women, have approached police, alleging that they had paid Mehta sums ranging from Rs 10,000 to Rs 50000 for roles such as second female lead and other characters.
According to PTI, insiders say it is no new practice where aspiring men and women are charged by relatively little known producers and directors, all for the much-needed 'first step or break,' to cast them in their projects. While a few projects do take off, many remain on paper.
Aspiring actors duped by money-for-roles scam

Caution
Army officers and Veterans need to be ever vigilant as more and more civil conmen operate from military cantonments and also from AWHO housing colonies as civilains are permitted to become AWHO members just by merely paying for/ or buying a NOC.