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 dubbing actor and dubbing director. She has dubbed in Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi, and Urdu language projects. [1]

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Personal life

Mona Ghosh Shetty is the daughter of former dubbing artiste Leela Roy Ghosh. While she dubs for foreign roles into Hindi most of the time, she also performs her dubbing roles into 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 professionally in English, Hindi, Bengali, and Oriya. When an advertisement becomes popular, she is required to dub it in all 10 official regional languages: Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, Oriya, and Assamese. She has mentioned, "I don't know all the languages. There is always a supervisor who informs me about the nuances of the language and how it should be spoken." Her debut voice over film was Nirnayak (1997) and she dubbed for Indrani Banerjee. [3] She specializes in dubbing for actresses who speak limited Hindi, even though the movies were already shot in Hindi. For over 15 years, she has provided Hindi dubbing for many leading female actors, including 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. Some of the actresses listed . She is still the approved Hindi dub-over voice artist for those actresses. Shetty also dubs for television commercials. She has recently given the Hindi voiceover for Galadriel for the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power .[ 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 [4] 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

YearFilm titleOriginal actressCharacterNotes
1998 Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai UnknownA boarding school principal who takes a pre-admission test of Kabir, a young boy.
Ghulam [5] Rani Mukerji Alisha Mafatlal
Soldier Preity Zinta Preeti Singh
Dushman [5] Kajol Sonia and Naina Sehgal
2000 Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai [5] Ameesha Patel Sonia Saxena
2001 Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya Isha Koppikar Anjali
Hum Ho Gaye Aapke [5] Reema Sen Chandni Gupta
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.
2002 Raaz [5] Bipasha Basu Sanjana Dhanraj
2003 Andaaz [6] [7] Lara Dutta KajalThe filmmakers wanted Lara Dutta's character to have a high-pitched voice.
Jism [5] Bipasha Basu Sonia Khanna
Kal Ho Naa Ho Preity Zinta Naina Catherine Kapur
2004 Dil Maange More Ayesha Takia Shagun
Main Hoon Na Amrita Rao Sanjana "Sanju" Bakshi
2005 Sarkar [5] Katrina Kaif Pooja Chauhan
Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story [5] Sonya Jehan Mumtaz Mahal
Kisna: The Warrior Poet Isha Sharvani Lakshmi
Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena [5] Koena Mitra Natasha Kapoor
Water [5] Lisa Ray Kalyani
Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya? Katrina Kaif Sonia Bharadwaj
2006 Apna Sapna Money Money Koena Mitra Julie Fernandez
Dhoom 2 Rimi Sen Sweety Dixit
Humko Deewana Kar Gaye [5] Katrina Kaif Jia A. Yashvardhan
Chup Chup Ke Sushama Reddy Pooja Rao
2007 Raqeeb Tanushree Dutta Sophie Matthews
Om Shanti Om Deepika Padukone Shantipriya and Sandhya
Partner Katrina Kaif Priya R. Jaisingh
Heyy Babyy Vidya Balan Isha B. Sahni
2008 Deshdrohi Hrishitaa Bhatt Neha R. Raghav
Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na Manjari Fadnis Meghna Pariyar
Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Anushka Sharma Taani Sahni
Kismat Konnection Vidya Balan Priya Saluja
2009 Love Aaj Kal Giselli Monteiro Harleen Kaur
Aladin Jacqueline Fernandez Jasmine
De Dana Dan Katrina Kaif Anjali Kakkar
2010 Prince Aruna Shields Maya
Aisha Amrita Puri Shefali Thakur
Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta Aruna Shields Neera Singh
2011 Bodyguard Kareena Kapoor Divya S. Rana
Rockstar [8] Nargis Fakhri Heer Kaul
2021 Sooryavanshi Katrina Kaif Ria Sooryavanshi

English Language Films

YearFilm titleOriginal actressCharacterDub languageOriginal languageNotes
1998 The Mask of Zorro [1] Catherine Zeta-Jones Elena Montero HindiEnglish
2000 Charlie's Angels Cameron Diaz [1] Natalie CookHindiEnglish
Drew Barrymore [9] Dylan Sanders
2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider [9] Angelina Jolie Lara Croft HindiEnglish
2001 Swordfish Halle Berry Ginger KnowlesHindiEnglish
2002 Mr. and Mrs. Iyer HerselfEnglish NewsreaderHindiEnglishA Minor Voice Over in the Opening of the Film.
2002 Stuart Little 2 Melanie Griffith Margalo (voice)HindiEnglish
2002 Spider-Man [ citation needed ] Kirsten Dunst Mary Jane Watson HindiEnglish
2002 Resident Evil Milla Jovovich Alice HindiEnglish
2003 The Matrix Reloaded Carrie-Anne Moss Trinity HindiEnglish
2003 The Matrix Revolutions Carrie-Anne Moss Trinity HindiEnglish
2003 X-Men 2 Halle Berry Ororo Munroe/Storm HindiEnglish
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Cameron Diaz [1]
Drew Barrymore [9]
Natalie Cook
Dylan Sanders
HindiEnglish
2003 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life Angelina Jolie Lara Croft HindiEnglish
2003 The Last Samurai Koyuki TakaHindiEnglish
2004 Spider-Man 2 [ citation needed ]Kirsten DunstMary Jane WatsonHindiEnglish
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Kirsten DunstMary SvevoHindiEnglish
2004 Elizabethtown Kirsten DunstClaire ColburnHindiEnglish
2004 The Day After Tomorrow Emmy Rossum Laura ChapmanHindiEnglish
2004 Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid KaDee Strickland Samantha RogersHindiEnglish
2004 Resident Evil: Apocalypse Milla Jovovich Alice HindiEnglish
2004 Hellboy Selma Blair Liz Sherman HindiEnglish
2005 Sky High Mary Elizabeth Winstead Gwendolyn "Gwen" Grayson / Royal Pain / Sue TennyHindiEnglishAired by Disney.
2005 King Kong Naomi Watts Ann DarrowHindiEnglish
2006 Mission: Impossible III Michelle Monaghan JuliaHindiEnglish
2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Keira Knightley Elizabeth SwannHindiEnglish
2007 Ghost Rider Eva Mendes Roxanne Simpson HindiEnglish
2007 Transformers Megan Fox Mikaela Banes HindiEnglish
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End Keira Knightley Elizabeth SwannHindiEnglish
2008 Wanted [1] Angelina Jolie FoxHindiEnglish
2008 You Don't Mess with the Zohan Emmanuelle Chriqui Dalia HakbarahHindiEnglish
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Megan Fox Mikaela Banes HindiEnglish
2009 Avatar Zoe Saldana Neytiri HindiEnglish
2010 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Gemma Arterton Princess TaminaHindiEnglish
2011 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Paula Patton Jane CarterHindiEnglish
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Penélope Cruz AngelicaHindiEnglish
2012 John Carter [1] Lynn Collins Dejah Thoris HindiEnglish
2012 Skyfall Bérénice Marlohe SévérineHindiEnglishMona'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.
2012 Total Recall Kate Beckinsale Lori QuaidHindiEnglish
2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Keri Russell EllieHindiEnglish
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Cobie Smulders Maria Hill HindiEnglish
2014 Guardians of the Galaxy Zoe Saldana Gamora HindiEnglish
2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Megan Fox April O'Neil HindiEnglish
2016 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows Megan Fox HindiEnglish
2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron Cobie Smulders Maria Hill HindiEnglish
2019 Dumbo Eva Green Colette MarchantHindiEnglish

Tamil and Telugu language films

Film titleOriginal voiceCharacterDub languageOriginal languageOriginal year releaseDubbed year releaseNotes
Azad Shilpa Shetty MahalaxmiHindiTelugu20002000
3 Shruti Haasan JananiHindiTamil20122012
Kochadaiiyaan Deepika Padukone Princess VandanaHindiTamil20142014
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'HaraHindiEnglish1997Mona 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'HaraHindiEnglish1998Mona 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 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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