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#12 - A CHAT WITH FILM RE-RECORDING ENGINEER, ANUJ MATHUR!

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#12 - A CHAT WITH FILM RE-RECORDING ENGINEER, ANUJ MATHUR! I've always been writing about Production Sound Mixing. So this time, I thought, I will chat with my friend Anuj Mathur, who is a very sought after Film Re-Recording Engineer at YRF Studios, and get him to talk about Film Mixing. Hi Anuj, tell us a bit about yourself - your background, your training and your journey into Re-Recording for films. I graduated from FTII in 1987, and started my career with the movie Chandni, (a Yash Chopra film) as an Assistant to Vasant Mudliar, who was the sound designer. Due to his ill health, he later on handed over the baton to me. Since then, I've been doing most of the Yash Raj Films as a Sound designer. In 2003-04, the thought of a studio model for Yash Raj came in. Though Yash ji had been asking me for a recording studio since the time of Lamhe (1993-94), I always used to submit a proposal to him saying it's not a viable proposition. And he used to get upset.  Basically he wante...