Express News Service
The unforeseen second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the nation to a screeching halt, again. For the film industry that had just begun to smell normalcy after standing still for several months, the announcement of new lockdown regulations has come as a challenge.
While film shootings have been disrupted, film professionals supervising the sound and colour grading processes in the post-production phase are finding inventive ways to get by.
“Unlike editors and VFX artists, who can work individually on their personal machines, dubbing mandates the physical presence of the actors and voice artists in the recording studio, thereby making our job much harder during the lockdown,” says Vignesh Guru, who has worked as a dubbing engineer on numerous films including Karnan and Sulthan, two major Tamil films to hit the marquee weeks before theatres shut down.