#3 From SHANTI to The Kapil Sharma Show!
Hi Friends, Before I continue with my post today, I just thought I should clarify once again, that in this blog, I am posting my personal views and comments. I just want to share my experiences of the past 33 years with my readers. Today, I want to write about the evolution of sound in the television industry in Mumbai … purely from my point of view. I started working in Mumbai in the field of audio from 1986 onwards, but serious work for television began in 1994. My friends Dileep Subramaniam and Inderjit Neogi asked me if I would be interested in working along with them on a daily soap. I said yes and started working as a freelancer on UTV’s daily soap SHANTI, sometime in 1994. This was India’s first daily soap and telecast on Doordarshan. It made Mandira Bedi a household name! We used to shoot 6 days a week. Since Dileep and Neogi were established freelance recordists and also had many other projects going on simultaneously, they would ask me to go on the shoot of SHANTI whenever t...