Welcome

Welcome to my Bollywood blog. I set this blog up in 2008 when I noticed that there's not much information available about Indian / Bollywood happenings in Finland. With this blog I want to spread the joy of Bollywood and inform people about Indian movies, dance courses, cultural happenings in Finland, news about Bollywood etc.. If I'm available, I usually try to join these happenings and share the pictures / videos here in my blog. I'm happy to answer readers' questions and I'm requesting to all organizers, that they would send me the information of the events.

I'm a Bollywood lecturer living in Helsinki city area and working in the TV-business. My first touch with the Hindi language movies was at the Love and Anarchy Film Festival in 2002 where I saw Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham and Lagaan - Once upon a time in India. I worked 2 months in Mumbai Film & TV-industry during the end of 2005 and collected information for my thesis about Bollywood films and their musical scenes to Tampere Polytechnic School of Art and Media. Movies have always been my passion, which shows by the amount of dvd's and movie literature at my home.

My goal is to get Indian movies to Finnish theaters and television. My biggest dream is to arrange an Indian movie festival in Finland sometime in future. For example I have worked together with Bollywood Frost Entertainments bringing Bollywood movie Don 2 to Finland.

I have done lot of collaboration with Bolly Beat Dance School. At 2011 I directed, shot and edited promotion video called Aaoji. I have also directed a Bollywood dance theater play called Ek Kahani - Love Story in cooperation with Bolly Beat Dance School to Cultural Centre Caisa at 2012. I would love to work with other show groups and dance schools too for example making promotion videos.

You can send me email to: devika.rani(at)hotmail.com
I'm checking my emails usually in every two weeks.

**Please don't copy my pictures, videos or texts without my permission!**