Sonu Sood: Employed several vocal techniques during early years

Having enacted several actionoriented roles on the big screen Sonu Sood gears up to take the plunge into the making of an audio series for Spotify As the voice of the titular character of Commander Karan Saxena in a series of the same name Sood has recreated for the audio format the Hindi pulp fiction novels penned by Amit KhanAlso Read Peoplersquos messiah Sonu Sood gets duped for reelTalking about the show directed by Mantra Sood says ldquoAs kids we would have access to audio cassettes of films like Sholay and Maine Pyar Kiya Hearing the dialogues was always an enjoyable experience Also wersquod read novels that we got on railway stations and begin to imagine the world that the stories would be set in When working on an audio platform we need to paint the entire picture through our voice It is challenging because you do not have any visual reference But when I started my career as an actor we did have such activities involving the use of our vocals Besides this story has been written in such a convincing manner that it makes the process simplerrdquoIn a bid to use his voice to paint a picture for listeners Sood says he had to first create a world for himself While in cinema his coactors would probably help him elicit the required reaction when in character Sood was not accompanied by other voiceover artistes while recording the lines of this character ldquoWhen we read a script we imagine how the character will behave talk and react and we work towards creating that world For example if the character is climbing up a hill and is breathless or hurt his voice needs to reflect that physical state The dialogues cannot simply be stated While I had people give me cues for the recording it was done individually You must imagine how the other voiceover artistes would talkrdquoThose whorsquove juggled both worlds would agree that acting behind the mic isnrsquot quite the same as doing so in front of the camera but Sood isnrsquot apprehensive to let his voice take centrestage At the onset of his career he says he spent time understanding the nuances of his voice by recording himself on the dictaphone recorder ldquoI would explore these techniques because you donrsquot hear yourself when you talk But when you listen to your voice itrsquos easy to see if yoursquore doing things correctly or notrdquo Ask him if he has read the books of Khan and he responds in the affirmative ldquoHe gave me a script that we are working on He is a writer who can appease the masses He writes the kind of lines everyone wants to say mdash they are always largerthanliferdquoAlso Read Ranveer Singh delighted as he meets Bade Bhai Sonu SoodThe Spotify original will see three of the popular Commander Karan Saxena books mdash Ek Vaigyanik Ki Talaash Chakravyooh and Mere Haath Mere Hathiyar mdash being adapted for the format Each book will be covered in six 15minutelong episodes and will be released on August 15 in keeping with the theme of patriotism during Independence Day