| Mona Ghosh Shetty | |
| Mother: | Leela Roy Ghosh |
| Years Active: | 1983–present |
Mona Ghosh Shetty is an Indian voice-dubbing actor and dubbing director. She has dubbed in Hindi, Bengali, English, Marathi, and Urdu languages.[1]
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]
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 .
In Nirnayak (1997) she dubbed for Indrani Banerjee. It was her first film dubbing for a Hindi film.
| Film title | Character | Language | Year release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hanuman | Hindi | 2005 | ||
| Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan[3] | Hindi | 2008 | ||
| Film title | Actress | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dubbed year release | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr. and Mrs. Iyer | English Newsreader | A Voice Over in the Opening of the Film | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2002 | ||
| Sooryavanshi | Katrina Kaif | Dr. Ria Sooryavanshi | English | Hindi | 2021 | 2021 |
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.
| Year | Film title | Original actress | Character | Few lines | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai | Unknown British actress | A boarding school principal who takes a pre-admission test of Kabir, a young boy. | ||
| Ghulam | Alisha Mafatlal | ||||
| Dushman | Sonia and Naina Sehgal | ||||
| 2000 | Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai | Sonia Saxena | |||
| 2001 | Aamdani Atthanni Kharcha Rupaiya | Anjali | |||
| Hum Ho Gaye Aapke | Chandni Gupta | ||||
| Unknown actress | A women's college student who informs the one-day Chief Minister Shivaji Rao Gaekwad about eve teasing in the college. | ||||
| 2002 | Raaz | Sanjana Dhanraj | |||
| 2003 | Andaaz[4] [5] | Kajal | The filmmakers wanted Lara Dutta's character to have a high-pitched voice. | ||
| Jism | Sonia Khanna | ||||
| Kal Ho Naa Ho | Naina Catherine Kapur | ||||
| 2004 | Dil Maange More | Shagun | |||
| Main Hoon Na | Sanjana "Sanju" Bakshi | ||||
| 2005 | Sarkar[6] | Pooja Chauhan | |||
| Ek Khiladi Ek Haseena | Natasha Kapoor | ||||
| Water | Kalyani | ||||
| Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya? | Sonia Bharadwaj | ||||
| 2006 | Apna Sapna Money Money | Julie Fernandez | |||
| Dhoom 2 | Sweety Dixit | ||||
| Humko Deewana Kar Gaye | Jia A. Yashvardhan | ||||
| Chup Chup Ke | Pooja Rao | ||||
| 2007 | Raqeeb | Sophie Matthews | |||
| Om Shanti Om | Shantipriya and Sandhya | ||||
| Partner | Priya R. Jaisingh | ||||
| Heyy Babyy | Isha B. Sahni | ||||
| 2008 | Deshdrohi | Neha R. Raghav | |||
| Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na | Meghna Pariyar | ||||
| Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi | Taani Sahni | ||||
| Kismat Konnection | Priya Saluja | ||||
| 2009 | Love Aaj Kal | Harleen Kaur | |||
| Aladin | Jasmine | ||||
| De Dana Dan | Anjali Kakkar | ||||
| 2010 | Prince | Maya | |||
| Aisha | Shefali Thakur | ||||
| Mr. Singh Mrs. Mehta | Neera Singh | ||||
| 2011 | Bodyguard | Divya S. Rana | |||
| Rockstar[7] | Heer Kaul |
| Film title | Original actress | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dubbed year release | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Mask of Zorro | Hindi | English | 1998 | 1998 | ||||
| The Matrix Reloaded | Carrie-Anne Moss | Trinity | Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | ||
| The Matrix Revolutions | Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | ||||
| Swordfish | Ginger Knowles | Hindi | English | 2001 | 2001 | |||
| X-Men 2 | Halle Berry | Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | |||
| Stuart Little 2 | Margalo (voice) | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2002 | |||
| Spider-Man | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2002 | ||||
| Spider-Man 2 | Kirsten Dunst | Mary Jane Watson | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | ||
| Spider-Man 3 | Kirsten Dunst | Mary Jane Watson | Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 | ||
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Kirsten Dunst | Mary Svevo | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | ||
| Elizabethtown | Kirsten Dunst | Claire Colburn | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | ||
| The Day After Tomorrow | Laura Chapman | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | |||
| Samantha Rogers | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | ||||
| Resident Evil | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2002 | ||||
| Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | |||||
| Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 | |||||
| Charlie's Angels | Natalie Cook Dylan Sanders | Hindi | English | 2000 | 2000 | |||
| Natalie Cook Dylan Sanders | Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | ||||
| [8] | Hindi | English | 2001 | 2001 | ||||
| Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | |||||
| Ghost Rider | Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 | ||||
| Wanted | Fox | Hindi | English | 2008 | 2008 | |||
| You Don't Mess with the Zohan | Dalia Hakbarah | Hindi | English | 2008 | 2008 | |||
| Transformers | Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 | ||||
| Hindi | English | 2009 | 2009 | |||||
| Avatar | Hindi | English | 2009 | 2009 | ||||
| King Kong | Ann Darrow | Hindi | English | 2005 | 2005 | |||
| Julia | Hindi | English | 2006 | 2006 | ||||
| Jane Carter | Hindi | English | 2011 | 2011 | ||||
| Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | Princess Tamina | Hindi | English | 2010 | 2010 | |||
| John Carter | Hindi | English | 2012 | 2012 | ||||
| Skyfall | Sévérine | Hindi | English | 2012 | 2012 | Mona'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 | Lori Quaid | Hindi | English | 2012 | 2012 | |||
| Hellboy | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | ||||
| Dawn of the Planet of the Apes | Ellie | Hindi | English | 2014 | 2014 | |||
| Hindi | English | 2014 | 2014 | |||||
| Guardians of the Galaxy | Hindi | English | 2014 | 2014 | ||||
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Hindi | English | 2014 | 2014 | ||||
| Hindi | English | 2016 | 2016 | |||||
| Hindi | English | 2015 | 2015 | |||||
| The Guru | Lexi | Hindi | English | 2002 | 2002 | |||
| Sky High | Gwendolyn "Gwen" Grayson / Royal Pain / Sue Tenny | Hindi | English | 2005 | Aired by Disney. | |||
| Inspector Gadget 2 | G2 | Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | |||
| The Last Samurai | Taka | Hindi | English | 2003 | 2003 | |||
| Dumbo | Colette Marchant | Hindi | English | 2019 | 2019 | |||
| Keira Knightley | Elizabeth Swann | Hindi | English | 2006 | 2006 | |||
| Keira Knightley | Elizabeth Swann | Hindi | English | 2007 | 2007 | |||
| Penélope Cruz | Angelica | Hindi | English | 2011 | 2011 |
| Film title | Original actress | Character | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dubbed year release | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kochadaiiyaan | Princess Vandana | Hindi | Tamil | 2014 | 2014 | |||
| 3 | Janani | Hindi | Tamil | 2012 | 2012 | |||
| Azad | Shilpa Shetty | Mahalaxmi | Hindi | Telugu | 2000 | 2000 | ||
| Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy | Nayanthara | Sidhamma | Hindi | Telugu | 2019 | 2019 |
| Film title | Character | Original voice | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dub year Release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beauty and the Beast | Hindi | English | 1991 | 2009 | Aired 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. | ||
| Belle | Paige O'Hara | Hindi | English | 1997 | ???? | 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 | Belle | Paige O'Hara | Hindi | English | 1998 | ???? | 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 | Hindi | English | 2010 | 2010 | |||
| Puss in Boots | Hindi | English | 2011 | 2011 | Hindi dub released in theatrically and on Home media releases. Her credit name for the role of Kitty was credited as: "Mona Shetty". | ||
| Planes | Ishani | Hindi | English | 2013 | 2015 | ||
| The Angry Birds Movie | Matilda | Hindi | English | 2016 | 2016 | ||
| Finding Dory | Dory | Bengali | English | 2016 | 2017 | ||
| Film title | Staff role | Studio | Dub language | Original language | Original year release | Dub year release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skyfall | Dubbing director | Hindi | English | 2012 | 2012 | This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub. | |
| Iron Man 3 | Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | English | 2013 | 2013 | This film was also dubbed into Tamil and Telugu by the same studio. Mona directed the Hindi dub alongside Kalpesh Parekh. | |
| Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | English | 2015 | 2015 | |||
| Jurassic World | Dubbing director | Sound & Vision India | English | 2015 | 2015 |