Mona Ghosh Shetty

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Mona Ghosh Shetty
Other names
  • Mona Shetty
  • Mona Ghosh
Occupations
  • Voice actor
  • voice casting director
  • dubbing director
  • voice coach
Years active1983–present
Mother Leela Roy Ghosh
Website soundandvisionindia.in

Mona Ghosh Shetty is an Indian voice-dubbing actor and dubbing director. She has dubbed in Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi, and Urdu languages. [1]

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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. She recently gave the voiceover for Galadriel for the American fantasy television show The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power .[ citation needed ]

In Nirnayak (1997) she dubbed for Indrani Banerjee. It was her first film dubbing for a Hindi film.[ citation needed ]

Filmography

Hindi films

Film titleCharacterLanguageYear releaseNotes
Samay Namrata SharmaHindi2003Extended Cameo Appearance

Animated series

Program titleRoleLanguageEpisodesAirdateNotes
Little KrishnaMaa YashodaEnglish135 November 2009

Animated films

Film titleCharacterLanguageYear releaseNotes
Hanuman Goddess Sita Hindi2005
Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan [3] Queen Samyukta Hindi2008

Dubbing roles

Animated series

Program titleOriginal voiceCharacterDub languageOriginal languageNumber of episodesOriginal airdateDubbed airdateNotes
Sofia the First Julie Nathanson BelleHindiEnglish68 (dubbed 1)11/18/2012–Current2015–CurrentAppeared in the episode: "The Amulet and the Anthem." She also sang for the song "Karo Galat Sahi" (English: "Make It Right").

Live action films

Hindi films

Film titleActressCharacterDub languageOriginal languageOriginal year releaseDubbed year releaseNotes
Mr. and Mrs. Iyer English NewsreaderA Voice Over in the Opening of the FilmHindiEnglish20022002
Sooryavanshi Katrina Kaif Dr. Ria SooryavanshiEnglishHindi20212021

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 dubbed for them to disguise their voices, despite that the movies were already shot in Hindi.

YearFilm titleOriginal actressCharacterFew linesNotes
1998 Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai Unknown British actressA boarding school principal who takes a pre-admission test of Kabir, a young boy.No
Ghulam [4] Rani Mukerji Alisha MafatlalNo
Soldier Preity Zinta Preeti SinghNo
Dushman [4] Kajol Sonia and Naina SehgalNo
2000 Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai [4] Ameesha Patel Sonia SaxenaNo
2001 Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya Isha Koppikar AnjaliNo
Hum Ho Gaye Aapke [4] Reema Sen Chandni GuptaNo
Nayak: The Real Hero Khyati KeswaniA women's college student who informs the one-day Chief Minister Shivaji Rao Gaekwad about eve teasing in the college.No
2002 Raaz [4] Bipasha Basu Sanjana DhanrajNo
2003 Andaaz [5] [6] Lara Dutta KajalNoThe filmmakers wanted Lara Dutta's character to have a high-pitched voice.
Jism [4] Bipasha Basu Sonia KhannaNo
Kal Ho Naa Ho Preity Zinta Naina Catherine KapurYes
2004 Dil Maange More Ayesha Takia ShagunYes
Main Hoon Na Amrita Rao Sanjana "Sanju" BakshiYes
2005 Sarkar [4] Katrina Kaif Pooja ChauhanNo
Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story [4] Sonya Jehan Mumtaz Mahal No
Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena [4] Koena Mitra Natasha KapoorNo
Water [4] Lisa Ray KalyaniNo
Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya? Katrina Kaif Sonia BharadwajNo
2006 Apna Sapna Money Money Koena Mitra Julie FernandezNo
Dhoom 2 Rimi Sen Sweety DixitNo
Humko Deewana Kar Gaye [4] Katrina Kaif Jia A. YashvardhanNo
Chup Chup Ke Sushama Reddy Pooja RaoNo
2007 Raqeeb Tanushree Dutta Sophie MatthewsNo
Om Shanti Om Deepika Padukone Shantipriya and SandhyaNo
Partner Katrina Kaif Priya R. JaisinghNo
Heyy Babyy Vidya Balan Isha B. SahniYes
2008 Deshdrohi Hrishitaa Bhatt Neha R. RaghavYes
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na Manjari Fadnis Meghna PariyarYes
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Anushka Sharma Taani SahniYes
Kismat Konnection Vidya Balan Priya SalujaYes
2009 Love Aaj Kal Giselli Monteiro Harleen KaurNo
Aladin Jacqueline Fernandez JasmineNo
De Dana Dan Katrina Kaif Anjali KakkarNo
2010 Prince Aruna Shields MayaNo
Aisha Amrita Puri Shefali ThakurYes
Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta Aruna Shields Neera SinghNo
2011 Bodyguard Kareena Kapoor Divya S. RanaYes
Rockstar [7] Nargis Fakhri Heer Kaul

Hollywood films

Film titleOriginal actressCharacterDub languageOriginal languageOriginal year releaseDubbed year releaseNotes
The Mask of Zorro [1] Catherine Zeta-Jones Elena Montero HindiEnglish19981998
The Matrix Reloaded Carrie-Anne Moss Trinity HindiEnglish20032003
The Matrix Revolutions Carrie-Anne Moss Trinity HindiEnglish20032003
Swordfish Halle Berry Ginger KnowlesHindiEnglish20012001
X-Men 2 Halle Berry Ororo Munroe/Storm HindiEnglish20032003
Stuart Little 2 Melanie Griffith Margalo (voice)HindiEnglish20022002
Spider-Man [ citation needed ] Kirsten Dunst Mary Jane Watson HindiEnglish20022002
Spider-Man 2 [ citation needed ]Kirsten DunstMary Jane WatsonHindiEnglish20042004
Spider-Man 3 [1] Kirsten DunstMary Jane WatsonHindiEnglish20072007
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Kirsten DunstMary SvevoHindiEnglish20042004
Elizabethtown Kirsten DunstClaire ColburnHindiEnglish20042004
The Day After Tomorrow Emmy Rossum Laura ChapmanHindiEnglish20042004
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid KaDee Strickland Samantha RogersHindiEnglish20042004
Resident Evil Milla Jovovich Alice HindiEnglish20022002
Resident Evil: Apocalypse Milla Jovovich Alice HindiEnglish20042004
Resident Evil: Extinction Milla Jovovich Alice HindiEnglish20072007
Charlie's Angels Cameron Diaz [1]
Drew Barrymore [8]
Natalie Cook
Dylan Sanders
HindiEnglish20002000
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Cameron Diaz [1]
Drew Barrymore [8]
Natalie Cook
Dylan Sanders
HindiEnglish20032003
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider [8] Angelina Jolie Lara Croft HindiEnglish20012001
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Angelina Jolie Lara Croft HindiEnglish20032003
Ghost Rider Eva Mendes Roxanne Simpson HindiEnglish20072007
Wanted [1] Angelina Jolie FoxHindiEnglish20082008
You Don't Mess with the Zohan Emmanuelle Chriqui Dalia HakbarahHindiEnglish20082008
Transformers Megan Fox Mikaela Banes HindiEnglish20072007
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Megan Fox Mikaela Banes HindiEnglish20092009
Avatar Zoe Saldana Neytiri HindiEnglish20092009
King Kong Naomi Watts Ann DarrowHindiEnglish20052005
Mission: Impossible III Michelle Monaghan JuliaHindiEnglish20062006
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Paula Patton Jane CarterHindiEnglish20112011
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Gemma Arterton Princess TaminaHindiEnglish20102010
John Carter [1] Lynn Collins Dejah Thoris HindiEnglish20122012
Skyfall Bérénice Marlohe SévérineHindiEnglish20122012Mona's name (credited as Mona Shetty) was mentioned on the Hindi dub credits of the DVD release of the film, also containing the Tamil, Telugu, Russian and Ukrainian credits. She also served as a dubbing director of the Hindi dub, alongside Kalpesh Parekh.
Total Recall Kate Beckinsale Lori QuaidHindiEnglish20122012
Hellboy Selma Blair Liz Sherman HindiEnglish20042004
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Keri Russell EllieHindiEnglish20142014
Captain America: The Winter Soldier Cobie Smulders Maria Hill HindiEnglish20142014
Guardians of the Galaxy Zoe Saldana Gamora HindiEnglish20142014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Megan Fox April O'Neil HindiEnglish20142014
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Megan Fox HindiEnglish20162016
Avengers: Age of Ultron Cobie Smulders HindiEnglish20152015
The Guru Marisa Tomei LexiHindiEnglish20022002
Sky High Mary Elizabeth Winstead Gwendolyn "Gwen" Grayson / Royal Pain / Sue TennyHindiEnglish2005Aired by Disney.
Inspector Gadget 2 Elaine Hendrix G2HindiEnglish20032003
The Last Samurai Koyuki TakaHindiEnglish20032003
Dumbo Eva Green Colette MarchantHindiEnglish20192019
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Keira Knightley Elizabeth SwannHindiEnglish20062006
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Keira Knightley Elizabeth SwannHindiEnglish20072007
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Penélope Cruz AngelicaHindiEnglish20112011

Other films

Film titleOriginal actressCharacterDub languageOriginal languageOriginal year releaseDubbed year releaseNotes
Kochadaiiyaan Deepika Padukone Princess VandanaHindiTamil20142014
3 Shruti Haasan JananiHindiTamil20122012
Azad Shilpa Shetty MahalaxmiHindiTelugu20002000
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy Nayanthara SidhammaHindiTelugu20192019

Animated films

Film titleCharacterOriginal voiceDub languageOriginal languageOriginal year releaseDub year ReleaseNotes
Beauty and the Beast Belle Paige O'Hara HindiEnglish19912009Aired 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 BellePaige O'HaraHindiEnglish1997????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 BellePaige O'HaraHindiEnglish1998????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 [8] Barbie Jodi Benson HindiEnglish20102010
Puss in Boots Kitty Softpaws Salma Hayek HindiEnglish20112011Hindi 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 HindiEnglish20132015
The Angry Birds Movie Maya Rudolph MatildaHindiEnglish20162016
Finding Dory Dory Ellen DeGeneres BengaliEnglish20162017

Production staff

Live action films

Film titleStaff roleStudioDub languageOriginal languageOriginal year releaseDub year releaseNotes
Skyfall Dubbing director Sound & Vision India HindiEnglish20122012This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub.
Iron Man 3 Dubbing directorSound & Vision IndiaEnglish20132013This 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 directorSound & Vision IndiaEnglish20152015
Jurassic World Dubbing directorSound & Vision IndiaEnglish20152015

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