After his acting skills failed to guarantee him plump assignments in Bollywood so that he could rub shoulders with biggies in the film industry, 52-year-old Paresh Natwarlal Thakker, a small-time actor, used his talent to pull off con jobs in the city, in which he would cheat shop owners. But Thakker ran out of luck after officials from the Khar police station arrested him from Zamzam hotel in Dongri on Friday.

Paresh Thakker cheated several retailers in the city after he failed make it big in Bollywood