A formal caution to all Tamil film production companies and studios: we strongly urge you to conduct thorough due diligence before entering any distribution arrangement with Hamsini Entertainment Ltd or any entity connected to Balaji Subbu. Extensive documented evidence — investor communications, transfer receipts and signed agreements — is available and will be provided upon request. Contact us here.
A UK-registered Tamil film distribution company entered administration in 2025, leaving behind a trail of defrauded investors across multiple countries. This is the full account of what happened, who did it, and how.
Do not enter into any financial arrangement with Balaji Subbu, Vivek Ravichandran, Deepa Iyer, Hamsini Entertainment Ltd or Devi Pictures. This scheme is systematic and deliberate. If you have already invested, preserve every record and contact a solicitor immediately.
We are investors. We were defrauded. When we compared our experiences with others, we realised the scale of what had taken place was far greater than any of us had been led to believe.
Balaji Subbu, Deepa Iyer and Vivek Ravichandran did not make poor decisions — they made calculated ones. This report exists because they should not be able to do this to anyone else. We are actively assembling a formal criminal complaint.
A company that built credibility on the Tamil film industry's biggest names — then used that credibility to defraud investors.
Hamsini Entertainment Ltd is a company incorporated in England and Wales that operated as an overseas distributor of Tamil-language films, primarily targeting Tamil diaspora communities in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Founded by Balaji Vishwanath Subbu, the company secured theatrical distribution rights for Tamil productions and cultivated a credible public-facing profile around its associations with major studios and high-profile films. That profile was not organic — it was manufactured, and it was the primary tool through which investor trust was gained and exploited.
The company entered formal administration in the United Kingdom in 2025, following sustained investor complaints, disputed financial structures, and what sources describe as the systematic misrepresentation of investment opportunities over several years. It is now the subject of ongoing fraud investigations and formal legal proceedings.
A simple, repeating scheme — designed to extract money before a single film had screened.
Hamsini would acquire the theatrical distribution rights to a Tamil film for a fixed price. It would then offer investors a 50% equity stake in those rights for half the acquisition cost. The pitch appeared fair — a genuine co-investment at cost, tied to a real film from a real studio.
The fraud was this: the same 50% stake was simultaneously offered to ten or more investors independently. Each paid $50,000 for an identical claim that could only legally exist once. Ten investors at $50,000 each against an outlay of $100,000 generated $500,000 in receipts — $400,000 extracted before any film had screened. The fraud was complete before the first ticket was sold.
When films released — including productions confirmed by independent sources to have performed well — every investor received the same message: the film had underperformed, the costs had been high, there was nothing to return. No audit. No receipts. No recourse.
Not a company failure. Three individuals who made deliberate, calculated decisions.
Hamsini Entertainment's own social media publicly confirmed the relationship with Deepa Iyer and Devi Pictures.
This is Hamsini Entertainment publicly confirming, in its own words, a close and ongoing working relationship with Deepa Iyer — at the same time investors were losing their money to this scheme.
Public records at UK Companies House also confirm that Hamsini entered into a secured lending arrangement with Bluestar Global Capital Limited in August 2025. Prior to Hamsini, Balaji Subbu held a directorship in Spectromax Solutions Ltd alongside Dominic Prabhu, who was connected to a Scottish Government IT programme subject to a BBC investigation examining contractor arrangements and conflicts of interest. The programme's cost rose from approximately $130 million to $226 million.
I sold my home to fund this investment. They told me the film failed. I know it did not. There is nothing left.
— Investor, location withheld
No minimum. No maximum. Everyone accessible through their recruiter network was a target.
Among the documented cases: one investor committed approximately $380,000 in life savings and has received nothing. A second sold their family home to raise $510,000 and was told the film underperformed. A third invested $450,000 across three film deals — all reported as losses despite independent sources confirming at least one performed well at the North American box office.
Total losses are estimated at approximately $13 million across multiple films, multiple deals, and victims in multiple countries. Over 20 victims have been documented. Investigators believe the true number is significantly higher.
Investors who sought answers were warned in multiple documented cases that they faced police action for harassment. The person who had lost everything was threatened by the perpetrator for asking where their money went.
Deepa Iyer brought me into this. She gave me every assurance. She is equally responsible for what happened to me.
— Investor, name withheld at request
The prior associations documented in Companies House records suggest the operators of this scheme are not newcomers to environments where large sums of money move without adequate scrutiny. Those associations are being examined with renewed urgency as the full picture is assembled.
Reports in investor circles suggest that even as Hamsini's obligations to existing investors went unmet, the company continued referencing major forthcoming Tamil productions — including the film Love Insurance Kompany — as leverage to attract new capital. Anyone approached recently with any investment proposition connected to any of the names in this report should treat it as a direct continuation of the fraud documented here.
One of the most serious financial frauds to emerge within overseas Tamil cinema distribution.
Its seriousness lies not only in its scale — approximately $13 million and counting — but in its deliberateness, its duration, the diversity of victims it ensnared, and the manner in which those victims were treated when they tried to recover what was owed to them.
The names Balaji Subbu, Vivek Ravichandran and Deepa Iyer are now permanently attached to a documented record of systematic financial fraud and investor exploitation. We are actively pursuing a formal criminal complaint. If you have any involvement with or information about this scheme, your account matters.
All information is treated in the strictest confidence and may support the formal criminal complaint being assembled.
Independently verified through direct message screenshots, bank transfer receipts and signed investment agreements. All names withheld at each individual's request.