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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...

I have been freelancing as a feature film production sound mixer and television mixer for quite some time now. Every shoot is a collaboration of many many people, belonging to different departments, each doing a specialised job and working towards a common goal...to make a good film or a good television show. A lot of planning goes into getting a day's work go off smoothly, but in spite of the best of efforts towards this goal, things do go awry at times….a new camera turns up without cards, a portion of a set collapses due to overnight rain, the colour on the walls of the set don’t turn out the way the director expected them to...and most filmmakers get going with the shoot in spite of accidents, mistakes, errors, setbacks and upsets. People improvise, innovate, change, adapt….but the shoot must go on. Every department faces problems. Be it the art dept, casting, production, camera, ….. everybody faces problems at some time or another. Some problems are purely due to...