She was born in New Delhi, India on July 13, 1970, but two years later her family migrated to Toronto, Canada. She grew up in Alberta, Canada and went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Vekeana Dhillon‘s screenplay Foot lieutenant, a family/dance feature film, is in development with Corus Entertainment / Rugged Media and a horror feature film titled Crashed for Telefilm Canada. 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 included among them Ji Karda (Eyeline Entertainment), Kurbani (FK International) and Hoshiyar Havaldar (Mirchi Movies) Dhillons 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 Music Television 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 Dares U with co-host Yudi Urs and Challenge with brother Vikram Dhillon. Vekeana parleyed her Bollywood experiences as a contributor and reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation 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 British Broadcasting Corporation stations in the United Kingdom. Vekeana shared her voice and news with the British Broadcasting Corporation World Service and British Broadcasting Corporation General News Service.
Nikki Bedi Show – British Broadcasting Corporation Asian Network (Radio) Dares U – Channel V (Television) Challenge – Channel V (Television) Style Police – Channel V (Television) Tea With – Channel V (Television) Live ideo Request – Channel V (Television) BPL Oye – Channel V Television Red Alert – Channel V Hong Kong (Television) Music Television By Demand – Music Television India (Television).
