I'm really not a fan of voiceovers; I think they become a crutch.
I've dubbed for the likes of Rabi Ghose, Anup Kumar, Anil Chatterjee, Asrani, Ranjit Mallick, among others.
If there's a scene in which I need to cry or emote heavily, I just take care of it during the dubbing sessions.
A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy.
Oh, my gosh, I've never seen a film unless, you know, if I have to go and do ADR, loop-loop. But I don't watch after. I'm too critical.
Dubbing really uplifts your character.
When we did the first 'Uncharted,' we weren't able to capture the audio with the performances. We would go back and do A.D.R. - Automated Dialogue Replacement - in which you would hear yourself and then repeat your line. Even when we were doing that, there was a slight disconnect because you were trying to recreate a performance.
A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.
We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.
What's interesting for me is that I generally consider myself to be more of a physical actor, and I'm somebody that doesn't really want to use the dialogue but prefers to act through my body, and then sometimes when I have a script, I look and kind of throw away the dialogue and I just look at how I can expressive it through my body.
You can make or break a picture in the dubbing room.
A dubbing artiste does a lot of repair work for an artiste who doesn't naturally speak the language they are acting in.
Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
You can't just replace someone with a regular-looking guy who didn't say any of the lines.
I can tell you, if you shoot in the rain you're going to have a lot of voice ADR to do after the movie and voice looping, stuff like that.
Dubbing is an important part of acting, and I feel complete only when it's my voice that is heard. Having essayed the character, I know the kinds of emotions that are required for each scene.
I've dubbed for all my films, including 'Ghajini.'
