Videogenic

I am glad so many people are speaking up online. I wish people did this sooner, so many of us would not have fallen victims to this a**hole’s trap! We have a similar story. We got married in August of 2021 and Ricky made us sign a contract that said that he would deliver the wedding video by February of 2022. We are currently in the summer of 2023 and you can guess where we are sitting at…still e-mailing him and trying to reach him.
We chose Ricky for our wedding as we looked at his highlight videos on Youtube, and honestly, he did a good job in those videos! Once we hired him, we noticed lots of red flags but we kinda looked past them as most indian vendors are usually more practical and less formal with lots of services they provide.

1) The first red flag was that he had 2 business accounts, one named Videogenic and one named Ricky Aulakh. If you are serious about your business, you would work hard to grow one account, not 2 or more, especially if they are the same.

2)The other red flag was him always getting back to us days later. We would wait and wait to get an answer for any of our questions. The day we scheduled a pre-wedding photoshoot he showed up very late, but he ended up showing up. Another red flag, but we looked past that one too. On the wedding week, he showed up late to every event, again. But he showed up.

3) We also noticed that it took him seriously SECONDS to film anything. The photographer we hired took so long to perfect all of our poses, but Ricky would quickly capture a moment, and move locations. At that point we found that to be concerning, but we were too busy with our wedding events, we did not give it a second thought.

4) The biggest red flag that we encountered, was when he called us 2 weeks before the wedding week asking for the full fee so he can “buy new equipment” that he can use to shoot our wedding video. We now wish we told him to F*** off that day, but instead we thought “we have to pay him full fee eventually anyways, might as well do it now”. But that day we did not feel very comfortable receiving that call from him as it was extremely unprofessional, but at the same time… scary. What if he can’t buy this new equipment and cancels to shoot our wedding? Who are we going to hire 2 weeks before the wedding week? These thoughts scared us, so we just paid him in full.

5) Another red flag was that he told us that in the video package he will want us to have an indian look as well, with indian clothes. He told us that he travels a lot for other people’s wedding shoots, so he will give us a call when he is in the area (mind you he is from Calgary and we are not) so he can add the indian look to the wedding video as well. He never got back to us on that, so we called him asking him to shoot one of our extra wedding events, but he made up an excuse and told us that it is too late now.

6) He quickly edited our wedding highlights (next day edit) and played it on the screen, on our reception day. This f**** did an amazing job and did exactly what we told him to do, we were very happy. But little did we know, that was the only final product we would receive from him. We wanted the highlight video, so we asked him multiple times to either send it to us or post it on youtube so we can show it to those that could not attend our wedding. It took him MONTHS to post our wedding highlight. MONTHS! That’s when we realized that we got screwed. So we started sending him e-mails, text messages, DMs, phone calls etc.. but got nothing back.

7) Once we realized that he has ghosted us, we started collecting evidence from reviews online (when we hired him we saw nothing shady online, we now wish someone spoke up sooner and louder!) and any paper-trail that would indicate that he has breached a contract, stole our money, and never got back to us.

Once we started looking deeper into this guy, we noticed that he has multiple failed businesses under his name. Now it makes sense, he opens up a new business, steals money from people, closes the business by declaring bankruptcy or whatever, and runs away. By reading other people’s experiences, we saw that some people were able to get the raw footage from him. To be extremely honest, we feel like he never shot our wedding video. He shot enough footage to create a highlight video and called it a day. Even if we harass him to get us the raw footage, we doubt he has anything worth to be edited.

Of course we are not letting him get away with this, we have spoken to lawyers and other legal entities, and we will do anything to raise our voice and make sure that no other couple falls for his trap. It seems like he still answers to those that inquire to him, he is still alive and scamming people. He will play the victim and make you believe that his wife ran away with his money and his stupid footage or he has “pErSoNaL iSsuEs”.

if anyone is legally dealing with him right now, contact me!!!