Mona Ghosh Shetty is an Indian voice-dubbing actor and dubbing director. She has dubbed in
Hindi
Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...
,
Bengali
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*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
, English,
Marathi
Marathi may refer to:
*Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India
*Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people
*Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece
See also
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Leela Roy Ghosh
Leela Roy Ghosh ( – 11 May 2012) was an Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist. She dubbed in Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi and Urdu languages. She was also a dubbing director. Her daughter, Mona Ghosh Shetty, is a voice actress and sin ...
. 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
Sound & Vision India is an Indian dubbing studio group in India, with their main studio located in Andheri, Mumbai. They have dubbed for many live action and animated theatrical or television films, series and documentaries.
History
Sound & V ...
located in
Andheri
Andheri ( n̪d̪ʱeɾiː is a locality in the western part of the city of Mumbai in India. Udayanagari, the name of a hill near the Mahakali caves, inspired the name Andheri. On the former islet of Versova, also known as Vasave, there was ano ...
,
Mumbai
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. 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.
Dubbing career
Shetty started as a
voice artist
Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...
at the age of five. 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
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Angelina Jolie
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Kate Beckinsale
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Kirsten Dunst
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Halle Berry
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Zoe Saldana
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*ζωή (''zōḗ''), the Ancient Greek word for "life"
People
* Zoe (name), including list of persons and fictional characters with the name
Film and television
* ''Zoe'' (film)
* ZOE Broadcast ...
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Drew Barrymore
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Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Aruna Shields
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Shields, while at a theatrical workshop, was spotted by an acting agent. According to Google zeitgeist, i ...
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Jacqueline Fernandez
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Katrina Kaif
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Deepika Padukone
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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
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Aruna Shields
Aruna Shields is a British actress, filmmaker and therapist. She debuted with the 2010 Indian film ''Prince'' starring Vivek Oberoi.
Career
Shields, while at a theatrical workshop, was spotted by an acting agent. According to Google zeitgeist, i ...
in the 2010 film "
Prince
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" and
Nargis Fakhri
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in the 2011 film "
Rockstar
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Films
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* ''Rockstar'' (2011 film), an Indian Hindi-language film by Imtiaz Ali
* ''Rockstar'' (2015 film), an Indian Malayalam-language fi ...
" at Yash Raj Studios. She recently gave the voiceover for
Galadriel
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She ...
for the American fantasy television show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
In Nirnayak (1997) she dubbed for Indrani Banerjee. It was her first film dubbing for a Hindi film.
Filmography
Animated series
Animated films
Dubbing roles
Animated series
Live Action television series
Live action films
Bollywood movies
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
Animated films
Production staff
Live action films
See also
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List of Indian Dubbing Artists
This is a list of Indian dubbing artists that have Wikipedia articles and are credited for giving voice to certain roles in foreign media. It can also be for Indian media as well, but spoken in a different language, or for those that are unabl ...