P M Satheesh

P.M. Satheesh was born in Kollam, Kerala, India. He is an Indian film sound designer, mixer and sound editor. In the year 1999, he received the National award for being the best sound design and recording artist for his work in Kumar Talkies. He has been known to work for Hollywood, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi films. He completed his graduation from the National Film and Television Institute which is located in Pune, Maharashtra, India. In the past, he has worked as a sound recordist and sound designer on multiple documentaries for reputed companies such as BBC channel, National Geographic, Channel 4, CBC and National Film Board of Canada.

He has also worked on featured films such as Dreaming Lhasa, Fakir of Venice, Mangal Pandey: The Rising and 15 Park Avenue. For the past six years he has been known to hold an exclusive contract with MTV India for creating sounds for broadcasts and live music events. He is the Founder and Chief sound designer for Fireflys Post Sound. Over the past two decades of his experience in local sound and sound design P.M. Satheesh has established Scuba Location Sound. He painstakingly has established this company putting together sound equipment which is high end and also about a dozen freelance sound recordists who work under this guidance.

This set up of his allows Scuba to record location sounds for documentation and television purposes where there isn’t much time left for post dubbing. This set up of his was a revolution in the sound business and braving all the logistical nightmares that could come their way P.M. Satheesh used Professional tools on location in the Himalaya for a multi-task hard disk recording that he was doing for Dreaming Lhasa which is a Tibetan featured film. According to P.M. Satheesh, the film Baahubali was one of the few films which gave a lot of importance to the sound recordings in it.

While recording sounds for the picture, they gave up the idea of shooting with synchronized sound as the dialogue delivery had to be modified accordingly. The sound team later decided on embedding several types of microphones across the whole set to record the ambiance sound. This according to him lends the film a natural feel. As these sounds aren’t available in the market, it gives the movie a sense of authenticity which could otherwise be a challenge for a sound designer.