Full Name Vekeana Dhillon Siblings Vikram Dhillon | Role Screenwriter Name Vekeana Dhillon | |
Occupation Screenwriter, actor, television presenter Parents Dyal Singh Dhillon, Harcharan Dhillon Movies I Proud to Be an Indian, Pinky Moge Wali, Kisaan, Jai Veeru Similar People Puneet Sira, Sohail Khan, Anmol Malik, Dilip Shukla, Arbaaz Khan | ||
Balle Balle with Vekeana Dhillon - Dialogue Writer and Stage Play
Vekeana Dhillon is a Screenwriter, Playwright, Television Presenter, Radio Presenter and Actress.
Contents
- Balle Balle with Vekeana Dhillon Dialogue Writer and Stage Play
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- Presenter
- Actor
- References
Early life and education
She was born in New Delhi, India and later her family migrated to Toronto, Canada. Raised in Alberta, Canada and went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Career
Vekeana Dhillon has written the book of the high end musical play Balle Balle (2017) for Wizcraft International Entertainment, Directed by Viraf Sarkari.
She has had four feature films produced and released internationally among them being I - Proud To Be An Indian (2004) Produced by Sohail Khan and Directed by Puneet Sira, Jai Veeru (2009) Produced by Siddi Vinayak Movies, and Kisaan (2009) again Produced by Sohail Khan and Directed by Puneet Sira, and Pinky Moge Wali (2012) Directed by Vikram Dhillon.
Dhillon as several scripts under production and development included among them The Tape (2017) (Pentacles Cinevision Pvt. Ltd.) Director Saket S. Behl, Chutku (Baweja Movies) Director Puneet Sira, Bitten (Pentacles Cinevision Pvt. Ltd.) Director Saket S. Behl, Ji Karda (Eyeline Entertainment) Director Vikram Dhillon, Kurbani (FK International) Director Feroz Khan and Hoshiyar Havaldar (Mirchi Movies)
Vekeana Dhillon‘s screenplay Foot It, a family/dance feature film, is in development with Corus Entertainment / Rugged Media and a horror feature film titled Crashed for Telefilm Canada.
Vekeana has also written The Great Punjabi Luv Shuv Story (2017) a web series for Ekta Kapoor's digital channel Alt Balaji produced by Eyeline Enertainment.
Dhillon's association with the entertainment industry was initially as an actor. Snip (2000) was her first feature film in which she played the tenacious gossip driven Delnaz Readymoney, followed by shorts for MTV in leading roles in Love Ke Liye and One Tight Slap which led to Bollywood Bound, a Canadian National Film Board documentary-feature following the lives of Vekeana Dhillon, Vikram Dhillon, Neeru Bajwa and Ruby Bhatia as transplanted Canadians in the world of Bollywood. Vekeana was hired by Rupert Murdoch’s Channel [V] where she became the face and personality of several shows that she hosted including the channel’s prime-time slotted [V] Dares U with co-host Yudi Urs and [V] Challenge with brother Vikram Dhillon.
Vekeana parlayed her Bollywood experiences as a contributor and reporter for the BBC Asian Network where she did a two year stint with her own weekly half-hour slot on the Nikki Bedi Show, in addition to reporting for regional BBC stations in the UK. Vekeana shared her voice and news with the BBC World Service and BBC General News Service.
Personal life
She is the daughter of Lyricist Harcharan Dhillon and retired Environmental Health Officer Dyal Singh Dhillon. She’s worked extensively with her producer/director brother, Vikram Dhillon, and currently lives in India with her husband, noted director/producer Puneet Sira whom she married in 2010.