A comedian. A chessboard. A score to settle.
When a powerful Senator has his best friend killed, a struggling stand-up hides a meticulous revenge plot inside the underground world of chessboxing. One calculated punchline, one brutal knockout at a time.
Ronny is a struggling comedian who stumbles into underground chessboxing to make ends meet, and discovers it's a front for a powerful Senator's criminal empire.
When his best friend is murdered for refusing to throw a match, Ronny's grief turns his comedy darker, sharper and viral. Teaming up with his fiancée, a forensic lawyer blocked by a corrupt system, he infiltrates the circuit to take the Senator's operation apart from within, armed with violence and dark humor.
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Watch on Instagram ↗A combat sport where athletes alternate between rounds of speed chess and boxing. Brains and brawn in the same ring, and one mistake in either can end the fight.
Funny Ronny puts it at the center of a genre film, where a chess move can be as deadly as a punch.
As seen on 60 MinutesChess boxing: a sport where brain meets brawn
Four ways to win
Chess fans and fight fans have never had a movie made for both of them. Funny Ronny is built to be the first.
Chess.com members, more than the population of most countries
Players logged 6 billion+ games in 2025 alone. It's digital-first, global and young, and streamers have turned it into must-watch content. When Hollywood finally gave this audience a story, The Queen's Gambit reached 62M households in 28 days.
worldwide box office for Creed III
From Rocky to Raging Bull to Creed, fight films sell for generations. They're built for trailers, built for clips and built for word of mouth. Boxing reaches 18M+ U.S. adults, and revenge thrillers like Monkey Man ($35.4M) show that bold, specific stories travel worldwide.
peak viewers for one Mogul Chessboxing card, with ~10K in the arena
Brainpower and brute force in the same ring. It has gone from underground clubs to arena crowds, global streams and a 60 Minutes feature, with the sport's first U.S. world champion signed to this film.
The first U.S. World Chessboxing Champion, manager of Team USA Chessboxing, and the sport's global spokesperson, recently featured on 60 Minutes.
Funny Ronny is my way of asking: how far would we go when the people who anchor us are ripped away?
An engineer-turned-filmmaker and the founder of Raninj Entertainment, Rahul tells universal stories with a South Asian essence. A former Illinois State Chess Champion and a karate black belt, he left engineering in 2024 to make films full time, just like Ronny left engineering for stand-up.
Investors receive 120% of their capital back before any profit split.
After recoupment, remaining profits are split evenly between investors and the production company.
The Illinois film production tax credit (30–35% of qualified spend) provides early recovery for the LLC.
Funny Ronny LLC, under the Raninj Entertainment umbrella.
Quarterly statements, with distributions paid when available.
Festivals, eventized screenings with live comedy, TVOD, then streaming and international licensing.
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