Creative Sound Design

Kunal Mehta

Kunal and Parikshit are nothing short of demi-gods in the sound industry. The awesome twosome have conceptualized and designed sound for hundreds of movies in multiple Indian languages. The boys really know how to add boom to block-busters as evidenced in their latest outing Goliyon Ki Raas Leela Ram Leela.

The two are also virtually inseparable. They always work together, a strategy that has worked well for the talented duo.

Explains Parikshit, "We work in sync with each other. There are things Kunal can handle better and there are some things I can handle more deftly."

Adds Kunal, "Sholay was a test of our talent and it was only because we stuck together and constantly encouraged each other that we were able to take on such a huge challenge."

The duo had near-insurmountable odds against them with the original unmixed version of the movie having gone up in flames in a freak accident in London two years ago. Plus there were challenges in recreating the sound of many things that are no longer in existence.

Parikshit Lalvani

Parikshit elaborates, "We don't have steam engines today and we had to create the sound associated with the puffing out of the smoke, the chugging of the engine and the clatter and clang of the wheels on the track from the scratch!"

"Sometimes, we would spend days together in our Chennai studio. Feel happy at the end product. Then hear it after a while and realize it is not working and then spend a few more days re-doing everything", shares Kunal.

The product of their efforts is Sholay 3D which is being released in Dolby Atmos on Jan 3, 2014. When you watch the movie, remember, there are the boys behind the Sound of Sholay 3D.