Film Production
Enam, UTI to lead manage K Sera Sera public issue
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera Productions has decided to tap the market to raise funds not exceeding Rs 600 million.
Enam Financial Consultants and UTI Securities Ltd will lead manage the issue. As reported in Indiantelevision.com, the fresh public offer is aimed at a June launch.
The board of K Sera Sera, which met on Friday, also decided the funds raised would be utilised to further the company’s business of film and television software production as well as distribution of films in selected areas.
The company has already produced films like Ek Hasina Thi, Darna Mana Hai, Ab Tak Chappan, Gayab Naach, Vaastu Shastra in association with Ram Gopal Varma. Presently it has four films on the floors — My Wife’s Murder, James, Sarkar and Darna Jaroori Hai.
The company also produced two serials for Sahara One – Aao Bahen Chugli Karen and Kuch Love Kuch Masti. The company is working on several serial ideas in different genres, the first of which is likely to be aired on Zee TV by 18 April.
Film Production
Priyanka Kaur Dhillon joins SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution
A seasoned content dealmaker with 16 years in digital and satellite media joins the Bengali entertainment powerhouse as it pushes into the pan-India music market
Mumbai: Priyanka Kaur Dhillon has made her move. The content acquisitions and commercials veteran, most recently commercial manager at Sony Pictures Networks India, has joined SVF Entertainment as lead for music distribution, stepping into one of the more interesting briefs in regional entertainment right now.
SVF is no ordinary regional label. Over 30 years it has built a formidable legacy in Bengali cinema and music, driven by culturally resonant storytelling and a catalogue that consistently punches above its weight. Its recent success with Chiraiya underlines the point. But the Kolkata-based powerhouse now has its sights firmly set beyond Bengal, most visibly through Legacy, a rap reality series produced in collaboration with hip-hop label Kalamkaar that signals a deliberate push into the pan-India music ecosystem.
Dhillon brings precisely the kind of muscle SVF needs for that expansion. At Sony Pictures Networks India, she led film acquisition and commercials and handled music licensing across the entire satellite network. Before that, she spent nearly 15 years at Hungama, rising to assistant general manager and leading strategic content licensing for the platform’s digital entertainment business, with a particular focus on international markets. Her label relationships span the full roster: Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Music, Believe International, Tunecore, The Orchard and a clutch of smaller aggregators. She has negotiated and closed deals with Hollywood studios, Bollywood production houses and regional content players alike, building pricing models and deal structures off data analysis rather than instinct.
Announcing the appointment, Dhillon said she was “thrilled to begin this journey with an iconic Bengali music label and content powerhouse,” adding that SVF’s “constant drive to push boundaries” was what drew her to the role.
SVF has spent three decades proving that regional does not mean limited. With a sharp commercial operator now steering its music distribution, its bid to go national just got a good deal more serious.
