With the mention of Anup Shukla and others of his ilk, one is reminded of a rapidly growing segment in the world of Indian movies. While Anup Shukla is an actor in Hindi films on his own merits, what specialises him is his dubbing skill. With the simultaneous release of Hollywood movies in India, demand for high quality lip synched dubbing has become a high priority and lucrative segment in Indian cinema.
In fact, dubbing had been more prevalent in the industry in the south due to the multilingual versions that are made frequently over there, and also the regular inflow of artistes from the North with their inadequate knowledge of the local languages. However, the real boom must have come with the advent of Hollywood movies in multiple Indian languages, making the voice-over and dubbing industry grow many fold in the country. This has now resulted in a host of artistes, especially from Uttar Pradesh, like Anup Shukla, getting more and more such assignments, with excellent command on Hindi, good diction, and the required voice modulation qualities.
We must at the same time remember that most of them, like Anup Shukla are actors first and then dubbing artistes. Most of them have come into dubbing via the route of acting in movies or TV serials, and are now managing both the roles amicably. They are now being given proper prominence in the credits too, and their skills are coming more and more into prominence. That Amit Sharma is equally comfortable in both English and Hindi and is very adept in translations, gives him an additional edge. Between the years 2005 to 2009, Anup has acted in supporting roles in three Hindi movies, “FarebFareb is a Hindi mini-series premiered on Hungama >> Read More...”, “Eik Dasttak” and “Fox”, as well as an animated Hindi film “Veer Yodha Prithviraj Chauhan”
In fact, his list of dubbing roles for Hollywood films is a little longer, and comprises of a total of 5 live movies and 3 animated ones. The list includes such famous names like “Spider Man”; “Transformers” as well as the “Madagascar” series in the animated versions.