Mona Ghosh Shetty
Mona Ghosh Shetty is an Indian voice-dubbing artist, singer and director. She has dubbed in Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi, and Urdu languages.[1]
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| Years active | 1983–present |
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| Website | soundandvisionindia |
Personal life
Mona Ghosh Shetty is the daughter of former voice-dubbing artist Leela Roy Ghosh. While she dubs her foreign roles in Hindi most of the time, she also performs her voice-dubbing roles in English and Bengali. She runs a dubbing studio known as Sound & Vision India located in Andheri, Mumbai. She used to work with her mother who was the founder and president of the company before her death and they had set up the businesses together in the early 1990s. Her mother died on 11 May 2012.[2]
Dubbing career
Shetty started as a voice artist at the age of five.[1] She dubs in English, Hindi, Bengali, and Oriya professionally, but if one advertisement becomes popular then she has to do it in all the 10 official regional languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Oriya and Assamese. She has stated that "I don't know all the languages. There is always a supervisor who tells you about the nuances of the language and how it should be spoken." She specialises in dubbing for teenage, young adult and middle-aged female characters. For more than 15 years, she has been dubbing in Hindi for many leading female roles such as Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie, Kate Beckinsale, Kirsten Dunst, Halle Berry, Zoe Saldana, Drew Barrymore, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aruna Shields, Jacqueline Fernandez, Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone and other celebrities. She is still the approved Hindi dub-over voice artist for those actresses. Shetty also dubs for television commercials, like an advertisement for an Indian airline. She recently dubbed for Giselli Monteiro in the 2009 film "Love Aaj Kal", Aruna Shields in the 2010 film "Prince" and Nargis Fakhri in the 2011 film "Rockstar" at Yash Raj Studios.
In Nirnayak (1997) she dubbed for Indrani Banerjee. It was her first film dubbing for a Hindi film.
Filmography
Animated series
| Program title | Role | Language | Episodes | Airdate | Notes |
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| Little Krishna | Maa Yashoda | English | 13 | 5 November 2009 | |
Dubbing roles
Animated series
| Program title | Original voice | Character | Dub language | Original language | Number of episodes | Original airdate | Dubbed airdate | Notes |
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| Sofia the First | Julie Nathanson | Belle | Hindi | English | 68 (dubbed 1) | 11/18/2012–Current | 2015–Current | Appeared in the episode: "The Amulet and the Anthem." She also sang for the song "Karo Galat Sahi" (English: "Make It Right"). |
Live Action television series
| Program title | Original voice | Character | Dub language | Original language | Number of episodes | Original airdate | Dubbed airdate | Notes |
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| Sacred Games | Radhika Apte | Anjali Mathur | Hindi | English | 16 | |||
Bollywood movies
| Film title | Actress | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dubbed year release | Notes |
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| Mr. and Mrs. Iyer | English Newsreader | A Voice Over in the Opening of the Film | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2002 | |
| Sooryavanshi | Katrina Kaif | Dr. Ria Sooryavanshi | English | Hindi | 2021 | 2021 |
Due to the actresses' poor Hindi knowledge and voice issues, the directors for these films could not allow the actresses to use their real voices, so Mona has dubbed for them to disguise their voices, despite that the movies were already shot in Hindi.
Hollywood movies
South Indian movies
| Film title | Original actress | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dubbed year release | Notes |
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| Kochadaiiyaan | Deepika Padukone | Princess Vandana | Hindi | Tamil | 2014 | 2014 | |
| Azad | Shilpa Shetty | Mahalaxmi | Hindi | Telugu | 2000 | 2000 | |
| Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy | Nayanthara | Sidhamma | Hindi | Telugu | 2019 | 2019 |
Animated films
| Film title | Character | Original voice | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dub year Release | Notes |
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| Beauty and the Beast | Belle | Paige O'Hara | Hindi | English | 1991 | 2009 | Aired on TV, dubbed in Hindi. Mona only provided the speaking voice for this character, in the Hindi dub. The singing Hindi voice was provided by Mimosa Pinto. |
| Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | Belle | Paige O'Hara | Hindi | English | 1997 | ???? | Mona only provided the speaking voice for this character, in the Hindi dub. The singing Hindi voice was provided by Mimosa Pinto. |
| Belle's Magical World | Belle | Paige O'Hara | Hindi | English | 1998 | ???? | Mona only provided the speaking voice for this character, in the Hindi dub. The singing Hindi voice was provided by Mimosa Pinto. |
| Toy Story 3[9] | Barbie | Jodi Benson | Hindi | English | 2010 | 2010 | |
| Puss in Boots | Kitty Softpaws | Salma Hayek | Hindi | English | 2011 | 2011 | Hindi dub released in theatrically and on Home media releases. Her credit name for the role of Kitty was credited as: "Mona Shetty". |
| Planes | Ishani | Priyanka Chopra | Hindi | English | 2013 | 2015 | |
| The Angry Birds Movie | Maya Rudolph | Matilda | Hindi | English | 2016 | 2016 | |
| Finding Dory | Dory | Ellen DeGeneres | Bengali | English | 2016 | 2017 | |
Production staff
Live action films
| Film title | Staff role | Studio | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dub year release | Notes |
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| Skyfall | Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | Hindi | English | 2012 | 2012 | This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub |
| Iron Man 3 | Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | Hindi | English | 2013 | 2013 | This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub alongside Kalpesh Parekh. |
| Avengers: Age of Ultron | Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | Hindi | English | 2015 | 2015 | This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub alongside Kalpesh Parekh. |
| Jurassic World | Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | Hindi | English | 2015 | 2015 | This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub alongside Kalpesh Parekh. |
See also
References
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