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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Entertainment |
Founded | 2016, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Founder | Prernaa Arora |
Defunct | 2018 |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra , India |
Key people | Arjun N. Kapoor Virendra Arora Kussum Arora |
Products | Film production |
KriArj Entertainment was an Indian motion picture production company founded by Prerna Arora. The first film under this banner was the 2016 period drama film Rustom , starring Akshay Kumar and Ileana D'Cruz. It was followed by the comedy drama's Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (2017), Pad Man (2018) and the horror film Pari (2018). [1] [2] The name of the company is an amalgamation of Krishna and Arjuna, a reference to their spiritual dialog in the Bhagavad Gita. The last venture produced by the company was Pari .
Year | Film | Director |
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2016 | Rustom | Tinu Suresh Desai |
2017 | Toilet: Ek Prem Katha | Shree Narayan Singh |
2018 | Pad Man | R. Balki |
Pari | Prosit Roy | |
Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran | ||
Batti Gul Meter Chalu | Shree Narayan Singh | |
There were some controversies surrounding the company's involvement in the productions of Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran , Batti Gul Meter Chalu , Fanney Khan , and Kedarnath , but not much information about these controversies were publicly available. [3] [4] The production house ceased operations in 2018 after its last production venture, Fanney Khan.[ citation needed ]
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