Mona, who has just dubbed for Deepika in “Kochadiyaan”, agrees. Now Karnad speaks good Hindi but many times the actors are not available,” recalls Singh.

In Prabhu Dheva’s ‘Kadalan’ (dubbed as ‘Hum Se Hai Muqabla’) I dubbed for both Prabhu and Girish Karnad. People could rely on me as I could modulate my voice to dub for markedly different characters in the same film. Soon I was travelling to Chennai twice a week. But the real break came when I dubbed for both Arvind Swamy and Nasser in ‘Roja’. Impressed with my performance, he gave me the chance to dub for the lead actor in ‘Raat’. “I started dubbing with Ram Gopal Varma’s ‘Shiva’, where I dubbed for Nagarjuna’s friend. You might not remember that he was Suresh, the only antagonist in the popular tele-series “Nukkad” but if I tell you that he is the official Hindi voice of any actor playing James Bond, as well as of Hugh Jackman and George Clooney, you will see the seasoned artist in a new light. Mona now runs a well known dubbing studio in Mumbai.Īfter a brush with theatre, Shaktee Singh came from Lucknow to Mumbai to become an actor, but when lady luck didn’t shine on him after doing bit roles, he took to dubbing to make ends meet. In ‘Raajneeti’, where she played a more rooted character, I provided a guide track and then she dubbed over it,” relates Mona, whose mother Leela Ghosh was a prominent dubbing director. “After that she was offered roles which suited her real-life persona. Then, Katrina Kaif’s success has led to a trend of exotic models with Indian features,” says Mona, who has dubbed for Kaif in “Sarkar” and “Humko Deewana Kar Gaye” giving Kaif time to learn the language. Some actors take time to get the Hindi diction and pronunciation right. Many times when starting out, they could not bring out the drama that is required to come through the dialogues. “In our industry female actors are allowed to learn on the job. Imagine the provocative dialogues of “Jism” and the irreverence of “Om Shanti Om”. Mona Ghosh Shetty leads the pack as the voice which has launched the careers of many heroines.įrom Rani Mukerji in “Ghulam” and Bipasha Basu in “Raaz” and “Jism” to Deepika Padukone in “Om Shanti Om”, Mona has helped in building many reputations and images. Meet the dubbing artistes whose voice boxes add to the box office collections every week but forget about their faces even their names remain shrouded in secrecy. Have you ever cared to notice who is the voice behind the contorted lips of Nargis Fakhri in “Rockstar”, or who will speak for Mark Wahlberg or for that matter the Autobots in the latest edition of “Transformers”? The secret is out.

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