K Sera Sera Limited Explained

KSS Limited^{[5] [6]} (formerly known as K Sera Sera Limited) is a media company headquartered in Mumbai, India. KSS is a publicly listed company on the BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and NSE (National Stock Exchange of India Ltd.) and was formerly listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange. KSS focuses on the entertainment film business with three main business entities: digital cinema rollout, the development of Miniplex cinema screens, and alternative content programming in cinema theaters.^[7] The company has distributed over 100 films and produced 28.

History

The organization was established on September 14, 1995, under the name Garnet Paper Mills Limited. In 2002, it underwent rebranding and adopted the name K Sera Sera Production Limited.^[8]

K Sera Sera Technologies Private Limited rebranded in April 2011, adopting the name K Sera Digital Cinema Private Limited to more accurately represent its emphasis on digital cinema. The company was established in 2009 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India. K Sera Sera Digital Cinema Private Limited is a subsidiary of KSS Limited.^[9]

Filmography

The company has produced and/or distributed the following films and TV shows:

Films produced

!Year!Title!Director!Writer !Producer / Presented by!Cast!Notes!Ref.

2004	Ab Tak Chhappan	Shimit Amin	Sandeep Shrivastava	Ram Gopal Varma	Nana PatekarYashpal SharmaNakul VaidPrasad Purandare	Based on the life of a Police sub-inspector with the Mumbai Police force Daya Nayak, remade in Telugu as Siddham	[10]
	Ek Hasina Thi	Sriram Raghavan	Sriram Raghavan Pooja Ladha Surti	Ram Gopal Varma	Saif Ali Khan, Urmila Matondkar	Based on the elements from the Sidney Sheldon story If Tomorrow Comes and the 1999 film Double Jeopardy; adaptation is based on The Bone Collector	[11]
	Gayab	Prawaal Raman	Prawaal Raman Kona Venkat	Ram Gopal Varma	Tushar KapoorAntara Mali	Remade in Tamil as Jithan	[12]
	Naach	Ram Gopal Varma	Pooja Ladha Surti Sulekha Bajpai Musharaff Ali Khan	Ram Gopal Varma Chitra Subramaniam	Abhishek BachchanAntara MaliRitesh Deshmukh		[13]
2005	D: Underworld Badhshah	Vishram Sawant	Ram Gopal Varma Manish Gupta	Ronnie Screwvala Ram Gopal Varma	Randeep HoodaChunky PandeyRukhsar RehmanIsha KoppikarYashpal SharmaSushant SinghGoga KapoorIshrat AliNagesh Bhonsle	Third Installment in the Gangster film series	[14]
	James	Rohit Jugraj	Rohit Jugraj Kona Venkat Manish Gupta	Ram Gopal Varma R. R. Venkat	Mohit Ahlawat Nisha Kothari Zakir Hussain Mohan Agashe Snehal Dabi Rajpal Yadav Raima Sen Rajendra Gupta Ishat Ali Ravi Kale		[15] [16]
	My Wife's Murder	Jiji Philip	Atul Sabharwal	Ram Gopal Varma	Anil Kapoor Suchitra Krishnamurti Boman Irani Nandana Sen Rajesh Tandon	Remake of 2004 Telugu film Madhyanam Hathya	[17] [18] [19] [20]
2006	Bhagam Bhag	Priyadarshan	Neeraj Vora	Sunil Shetty Dhilin Mehta	Akshay Kumar Govinda Paresh Rawal Lara Dutta Rajpal Yadav Jackie Shroff Arbaaz Khan Shakti Kapoor Manoj Joshi Razak Khan Sharat Saxena Asrani Gurleen Chopra	Based on the 1995 Malayalam film Mannar Mathai Speaking, which was inspired from 1958 Alfred Hitchcock's Hollywood movie Vertigo; Plot elements were based on the 1987 Malayalam movie, Nadodikkattu; the twist climax was based on 1999 Marathi movie Bindhaast; climax scene adapted from Stanley Kramer's 1963 Hollywood movie It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; remade in Telugu as Brahmanandam Drama Company	[21]
		Rohit Shetty	Neeraj Vora	Dhilin Mehta Parag Sanghvi	Ajay Devgn Arshad Warsi Sharman Joshi Tusshar Kapoor Rimi Sen Paresh Rawal	First Installment of Golmaal film series	[22]
2007	Aag	Ram Gopal Varma	Sajid-Farhad	Ram Gopal Varma	Amitabh Bachchan Mohanlal Ajay Devgn Sushmita Sen	Based on the Adaptation of Salim-Javed's Bollywood movie Sholay	[23]
	Evano Oruvan	Nishikant Kamat	R. Madhavan Seeman	Abbas–Mustan	Madhavan Sangeetha Seeman	Tamil remake of the director's Marathi movie Dombivali Fast, which was based on Michael Douglas Hollywood movie Falling Down	[24]
	Nanhe Jaisalmer	Samir Karnik	Samir Karnik	K Sera Sera	Bobby DeolDwij YadavVatsal Sheth		[25] [26] [27] [28]
	Partner	David Dhawan	David Dhawan, Yunus Sajawal, Sanjay Chhel	Sohail Khan, Parag Sanghvi	GovindaLara DuttaSalman KhanKatrina Kaif	Based on the 2005 Hollywood film Hitch	[29]
	Risk	Vishram Sawant	Vishram Sawant	K Sera Sera	Vinod Khanna Randeep Hooda Tanushree Dutta Zakir Hussain	Based on the Mumbai Underworld	[30]
2008	Sarkar Raj	Ram Gopal Varma	Prashant Pandey	Ram Gopal Varma Praveen Neel	Amitabh Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan Aishwarya Rai Bachchan Dilip Prabhavalkar Supriya Pathak	Second Installment of Sarkar film series	[31]
2009	Chal Chala Chal	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	T. K. Rajeev Kumar	Dharmesh Rajkotia, Manna Shetty, G.P. Vijayakumar	Govinda Rajpal Yadav Reema Sen Om Puri	Remake of 1989 Malayalam film Varavelpu; scenes of this movie based on 2001 Malayalam film Ee Parakkum Thalika	[32] [33] [34] [35]
	Kisse Pyaar Karoon	Ajay Chandok	Yunus Sajawal	Bala Kumar	Arshad Warsi Aashish Chaudhary Yash Tonk Udita Goswami Aarti Chhabria	Basic plot is lifted from the Hollywood film Saving Silverman which, in turn, was also the main theme of the 2008 Bollywood movie De Taali
2012	Life Ki Toh Lag Gayi	Rakesh Mehta	Rakesh Mehta	Rakesh Mehta	Ranvir Shorey Kay Kay Menon Manu Rishi Jackie Shroff Neha Bhasin Neeraj Vora Sharat Saxena Tom Alter Asrani		[36]
2015		Sunny Deol	Sunny Deol	Dharmendra Jay Dev Banerjee	Sunny Deol Om Puri Shivam Patil Rishabh Arora Abhilash Kumar Neha Khan Aanchal Munjal Soha Ali Khan Narendra Jha	Sequel to 1990 Bollywood film Ghayal	[37]
2017	Romeo-N-Bullet	Aditya Kumar	Vishal Kumar Patil	Aditya Kumar	Vije BhatiaAradhya Taing Rishi Verma		[38]
2022	Judaa Hoke Bhi		Mahesh Bhatt	K Sera SeraLongranger Production Pvt. Ltd.	Akshay Oberoi Aindrita RayMeherzan MazdaJiya MustafaRushad Rana	Filmed in India's first LED virtual production studio, Studio Virtual Worlds	[39]
	Holy Cow	Sai Kabir		K Sera SeraYS Entertainment	Sanjai MishraTigmanshu DhuliaNawazuddin Siddiqui		[40]
	Modi Ji Ki Beti	Eddy Singh	TripurariAvni ModiEddy Singh	K Sera SeraAn E Creatives	Avni ModiPitobash TripathiVikram KochharTarun KhannaEddy Singh		[41]

Films distributed

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Cast	Production Company	Notes	Ref
2003	Darna Mana Hai	Prawaal Raman	Atul Sabharwal Rajnish Thakur Abbas Tyrewala	Ram Gopal Varma	Nana Patekar Vivek Oberoi Saif Ali Khan Boman Irani Sanjay Kapoor Shilpa Shetty Sohail Khan Antara Mali Sameera Reddy Rajpal Yadav Aftab Shivdasani Isha Koppikar Peeya Rai Chowdhary Revathi Raghuvir Yadav Gaurav Kapur Kiku Sharda Abir Goswami	K Sera Sera Productions	Dubbed in Telugu as the Same title as this name	[42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47]
2004	Vaastu Shastra	Saurab Narang	Charu Du Acharya	Ram Gopal Varma	Peeya Rai Chowdhary J. D. Chakravarthy Sushmita Sen	K Sera Sera Productions	Dubbed in Telugu as Marri Chettu	[48] [49]
2005	No Entry	Anees Bazmee	Anees Bazmee	Boney Kapoor	Salman Khan Anil Kapoor Fardeen Khan Bipasha Basu Esha Deol Lara Dutta Celina Jaitly	SK Film Entertainment	Remake of 2002 Tamil film Charlie Chaplin	[50]
	Sarkar	Ram Gopal Varma	Manish Gupta	Ram Gopal Varma Parag Sanghvi	Amitabh Bachchan Abhishek Bachchan Kay Kay Menon Supriya Pathak Katrina Kaif Tanisha Mukherjee Anupam Kher Kota Srinivasa Rao	RGV Film Company	First installment of Sarkar	[51]
2006	Darna Zaroori Hai	Sajid Khan Ram Gopal Varma Prawaal Raman Vivek Shah Jiji Philip J. D. Chakravarthy Manish Gupta	Sajid Khan Prawaal Raman Ashish Deo Nikhil Mishra Manish Gupta	Satish Kaushik Ram Gopal Varma	Amitabh Bachchan Anil Kapoor Sunil Shetty Arjun Rampal Riteish Deshmukh Bipasha Basu Randeep Hooda Mallika Sherawat Rajpal Yadav Sonali Kulkarni Makarand Deshpande	RGV Film Company	First installment of Darna Mana Hai	[52]
	I See You	Vivek Agrawal	Vivek Agrawal	Mehr Jesia	Arjun Rampal Vipasha Agrawal	Chasing Ganesha Films	Based on the novel If Only It Were True (Et si c'était vrai...) by Marc Levy; elements from the Malayalam film Vismayathumbathu, 2005 Hollywood film Just Like Heaven, and debut film of Vipasha Agrawal	[53] [54]
2009		Sangeeth Sivan	Trivikram Srinivas	Jasswant Khera	Bobby Deol Nana Patekar Shriya Saran	Dharam Films	Remake of 2005 Telugu film Athadu	[55] [56]
2010	332 Mumbai to India	Mahesh Pandey	Chirag Jain	Sangeeth Sivan	Amitriyaan Ali Asgar Chetan Pandit Vijay Mishra Sharbani Mukherjee	Sangeeth Sivan Productions		[57] [58]

Television

Year	Show	Network
2004	Kuchh Love Kuchh Masti	Sahara One
2005	Kasshish	Zee TV	[59]

Notes and References

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9. News: Company Overview of K Sera Sera Digital Cinema Private Limited.
10. Web site: David . The Films of Ram Gopal Varma – An Overview . Cinema Strikes Back . 16 June 2006 . 22 February 2009 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090725153007/http://www.cinemastrikesback.com/?p=1202 . 25 July 2009 .
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35. Web site: Movie Review: Chal Chala Chal - Indian Express .
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44. Web site: Movie review: "Darna Mana Hai" starring Nana Patekar, Vivek Oberoi, Saif Ali Khan .
45. Web site: Don't get scared, get thrilled .
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48. Web site: JD Chakravarthy calls RGV a master of horror films. 3 October 2012. 20 June 2022. 15 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140715061754/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/telugu/news/2012/jd-chakravarthy-call-rgv-master-of-horror-films-099973.html. dead.
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51. Web site: Sarkar is just Godfather, dumbed-down. Raja Sen . Rediff. 30 June 2005.
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57. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104000629/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-10-28/news-interviews/28262619_1_rahul-raj-film-venue Rahul Raj's father is furious
58. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104000637/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2010-09-01/news-interviews/28270946_1_film-cuts-names Censor slashes Sivan's film
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