K-Pop band BTS claims to find you when you need them the most. Ayushree Tari, filmmaker, and admin of Instagram page Mumbai BTS, is not sure if the band will ever find her. But all that truly matters now is that she found them. “I was experiencing a really bad phase before I heard of BTS. The first song I listened to was Blood, Sweat & Tears in 2016. By 2017, I was a die-hard fan. All their songs have a lot of depth. They helped me collect myself and overcome my depression,” she says.

By 2020, Tari had opened her own BTS account, where she would initially post edited clips of the Korean boy band. But the BTS-themed events abroad motivated her to start something similar in India. She hosted the first event in 2021 with the help of a couple of friends in Goregaon. “Over 80 people attended it. We were the first ones to have hosted such an event in the country. After a few more BTS-themed events, my team grew and I found a family.”