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KSS Limited (formerly known as K Sera Sera Limited)
Company typePublic
BSE: 532081[1]
NSE: KSERASERA[2]
Founded1 January 1993 (1993-01-01) (Private)
20 December 1999 (1999-12-20) (Public)
FounderMr. Satish Panchariya (CMD)
[3]
Headquarters
Mumbai, Maharashtra
,
India
Area served
Worldwide
OwnerMr. Satish Panchariya (CMD)
[3]
Websitewww.kserasera.com

KSS Limited[4][5] (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.[6] The company has distributed over 100 films and produced 28.

History

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The organization was founded on September 14, 1995, under the name Garnet Paper Mills Limited. In 2002, it underwent a rebranding and was renamed K Sera Sera Production Limited.[7]

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.[8]

Filmography

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

Films produced

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Year Title Director Writer Producer / Presented by Cast Notes Ref.
2004 Ab Tak Chhappan Shimit Amin Sandeep Shrivastava Ram Gopal Varma Nana Patekar

Yashpal Sharma Nakul Vaid Prasad Purandare

Based on the life of a Police sub-inspector with the Mumbai Police force Daya Nayak, remade in Telugu as Siddham [9]
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 [10]
Gayab Prawaal Raman Prawaal Raman
Kona Venkat 		Ram Gopal Varma Tushar Kapoor

Antara Mali

Remade in Tamil as Jithan [11]
Naach Ram Gopal Varma Pooja Ladha Surti
Sulekha Bajpai
Musharaff Ali Khan 		Ram Gopal Varma
Chitra Subramaniam 		Abhishek Bachchan

Antara Mali Ritesh Deshmukh

[12]
2005 D: Underworld Badhshah Vishram Sawant Ram Gopal Varma
Manish Gupta 		Ronnie Screwvala
Ram Gopal Varma 		Randeep Hooda

Chunky Pandey Rukhsar Rehman Isha Koppikar Yashpal Sharma Sushant Singh Goga Kapoor Ishrat Ali Nagesh Bhonsle

Third Installment in the Gangster film series [13]
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 		[14][15]
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 [16][17][18][19]
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 [20]
Golmaal: Fun Unlimited 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 [21]
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 [22]
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 [23]
Nanhe Jaisalmer Samir Karnik Samir Karnik K Sera Sera Bobby Deol

Dwij Yadav Vatsal Sheth

[24][25][26][27]
Partner David Dhawan David Dhawan, Yunus Sajawal, Sanjay Chhel Sohail Khan, Parag Sanghvi Govinda

Lara Dutta Salman Khan Katrina Kaif

Based on the 2005 Hollywood film Hitch [28]
Risk Vishram Sawant Vishram Sawant K Sera Sera Vinod Khanna
Randeep Hooda
Tanushree Dutta
Zakir Hussain 		Based on the Mumbai Underworld [29]
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 [30]
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 [31][32][33][34]
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 [35]
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 Ghayal: Once Again 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 Bhatia

Aradhya Taing Rishi Verma

[38]
2022 Judaa Hoke Bhi Vikram Bhatt Mahesh Bhatt K Sera Sera

Longranger Production Pvt. Ltd.

Akshay Oberoi

Aindrita Ray Meherzan Mazda Jiya Mustafa Rushad Rana

Filmed in India's first LED virtual production studio, Studio Virtual Worlds [39]
Holy Cow Sai Kabir K Sera Sera

YS Entertainment

Sanjai Mishra

Tigmanshu Dhulia Nawazuddin Siddiqui

[40]
Modi Ji Ki Beti Eddy Singh Tripurari

Avni Modi Eddy Singh

K Sera Sera

An E Creatives

Avni Modi

Pitobash Tripathi Vikram Kochhar Tarun Khanna Eddy Singh

[41]

Films distributed

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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 Ek: The Power of One 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

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

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