All pitched up!
SENSATIONAL VOICE! Ravindra Singh.
For long they have been faceless wonders. Not any more. Recently, the Association of Voice Over Artists presented the first AVA Awards. While Shah Rukh Khan and his son Aryan walked away with the top honours in the best voiceover (male) and best voiceover (child) categories respectively for lending their voices to "The Incredibles", Delhiite Ravindra Singh won the award in the news documentary category for his path-breaking voiceover in the crime series "Red Alert". Interestingly, Ravindra is also the voice behind "Sansani".
Path-breaking voiceover? "Yes, the organisers noted the aggressive narration that we introduced with the series, setting a trend that others in the industry are following," says Ravindra.
He doesn't feel the aggression amounts to taking sides in a news story, which should not be the case, because none of the cases they take up has been decided in a court of law. "Our aggression is directed towards the crime, not any individual. We want people to take notice of the heinous crimes that are being committed around them. And the TRPs show that both the shows have hit the people's imagination."
Like Shivavardhan Trivedi, the anchor of "Sansani", Ravindra is also a trained actor, who has worked with the leading lights of theatre. "Actors bring the right kind of expression to the story. Sapaat news padhne ke din nahin hain. (The days of reading the news in a flat way are over.) In the battle for TRPs it takes lot of effort to create news everyday, for people look for entertainment in news." The award has for once brought him into the limelight, but Ravindra says he prefers to be in the background.
"I am looking for the right break. Till then I want to save my face. The film industry still has a mental block towards television artistes." He continues, "See, tomorrow if Shivavardhan goes to films, nobody will offer him a comedy... not even the role of a news anchor. He would only be offered a dacoit's role."
A.K.
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