CANDIRA KUUSI JABLAVA ::
.....19-year old Candira was born in Bombay to a single-mother family. No brothers or sisters. She only knows that her Father is a Finnish writer, whom she is desperately trying to find. Candira is a rising comet in the Bollywood movie scene, she started her career at age 15; Recently she has starred in ????, in addition to some side parts in low budget movies. Candira is sweet, slightly naïve, very determined and feminine. She has curly shortish hair, big eyes and a soft smile. She adores Western-style revealing dresses, and likes to wear natural make-up (although for promotional use she is made up as a very feminine and painted lady, indeed). Her favourite non-Indian film, and the one that made her want to become a filmstar is Michael Powell's Red Shoes based on an Andersen fairytale. (the story of a ballerina falling in love with a pair of red shoes and dancing her life a way is a key to her compulsive unconsciousness and also to her greatest fears somehow? http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Guild/9891/red.html ).In Finland, Candira lives in a mid-class hotel.

SHIRA JABLAVA ::
.....Candira's Mother. As being a single Mum in India is very harsh, Shira has become one of the leading feminist activists in her country. She works for a feminist book publisher: http://www.kalibooks.com/ and also works for an association supporting single mothers who want to adopt children on their own: http://www.india-today.com/itoday/03111997/papa.html. One of her activities, already starting in the seventies, when she was a young hippie girl, has also been a non-violent resistance of destruction of forests in India in a movement called Chipko. During her most hectic activist years in the late 70's she fell in love with a finnish eco-hippie, Antero, who was participating in the chipko movement: http://iisd1.iisd.ca/50comm/commdb/desc/d07.htm
.....They shared a common chipko passion for hugging trees. When Antero disappeared, she realized she was pregnant. She wanted to name her daughter after Antero, -- his family name referring to a tree. Nowdays, she finds it very difficult to accept that her daughter is becoming sex symbol.

ANTERO KUUSI ::
.....Candira's Father. Finnish writer (free lance journalist, some fiction + poetry, too), never has published much. In 1981 Antero, known to be slightly eccentric and off-the-track, so to say, travelled around India in the intention to finally write a novel about ???. On his journey, he had a short affair with Shira. She became pregnant, but he never found out. Antero Kuusi disappeared in the mid-eighties. Hints of him lead to a semi-terrorist anti-Nokia group (could he as a disappeared person be just a cover character in it), to semi-mythological vendipeople who have invented a (hi)story of a shamanistic fennougric and baltic craftmanfolk http://www.saunalahti.fi/~halmat/vendi.htm, http://www.sci.fi/~safari/vendit.htm , and to a strict religious sect in northern Finland, laestadianism http://members.tripod.com/makkeri/ .

AGENT :: (the office) in India

"ROMMI" MARLIN
.....Candira's Finnish agent. A slimy pimp-like guy in his early forties. Losing his hair, skinny, big lips, wearing too small suits and cheap rings. Has had several badly running companies, some months ago founded a BBB-class promotion agency Darling Tools. Rommi is single, not to be trusted, always seeking for quick cash. He has brains for speedy actions but no real smartness. In Candira, Rommi sees his big chance. In addition, he promotes a unknown Finnish dance music group Testcool, a name he came up with himself.

CHATTERS :: 5 persons ???? Bots?

RISTO EERIKINPOIKA TÖRHÖNEN ::
.....one of Candira's fans via the chat group. Tall, swinging walk, creamy strawberry blond, short but wavy hair, swinging walk. Constantly smoking some exotic tax-free cigarettes. Heavy drinker though never losing control. Extremely polite with an intensive stare. Always giving impression of having lots of money although in reality is a genuine parasite. Later becomes Candira's manipulative boyfriend, pushing her to do dirty jobs for him. Nokia connection?

TESTCOOL :: 3 guys + a girl

Anti-NOKIA gang?

DR TRUTH :: TV- programme??????