This is true. I haven't been able to find it recently, but there was a documentary/brag video about it, made by the actual people that did it.

Saikat Chakrabarti, if I'm not mistaken.... he/his group has/had a Youtube channel where they literally explained all that and their plan to take over the government via recruiting actors.

He said he wants to be a politician but doesn't think he has the charisma for it, so he hired a bunch of actors to speak in his place.