Namrata Sawhney

Namrata Sawhney
नम्रता साहनी
Namrata Sawhney; नम्रता साहनी
Born	December 4, 1970 (age 47); Patiala India
Occupation	Actress, Voice actress, singer
Years active	1983-Current

Namrata Sawhney (Hindi: नम्रता साहनी Namratā Sāhanī, born: December 4, 1970 in Mumbai) is an Indian actress, voice actress and singer, who speaks English, Hindi and Marathi as her mother tongue languages. For over more than 30 years, she's been voicing characters and dubbing characters for foreign media, and she currently works for Sugar Mediaz, which is an Indian dubbing studio. She is trained as a voice artist and a sound engineer for the company. She is considered to be the official Hindi dub-over artist for Indian actress, Sridevi, in her Tamil films. She also dubbed for Juhi Chawla in some Kurkure commercials, where Chawla wasn't available at the time to do it herself.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film title	Role	Language
1993	Bedardi	Mohini	Hindi
1994	Vaade Iraade	Additional Role	Hindi
2008	A Wednesday!	the common man's wife	Hindi

Voice Roles

Animated films

Year	Film title	Role	Language	Notes
1992	Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama	Sita	Hindi	An Indian-Japanese animated film.
2012	Krishna Aur Kans	Dourga	Hindi

Commercials

Dubbing career

Namrata Sawhney first started as a child voice actress when she was 13 years old, back in 1983. Kissa Tota Maina was her very first program which was a radio show and soon Sawhney got into voice-acting and also dubbing. From a child voice to the lead voice, It's been around more than 30 years, since she's been doing this. She has then enjoyed her job for being a voice artist. She gave the Hindi dubbing voice to Kate Winslet's role as Rose DeWitt Bukater/Dawson in Titanic for the cinema release, the home media releases and for UTV television airings, Princess Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin when it was dubbed in 1994, and she's considered to be the official Hindi dub-over artist for Sridevi in her Tamil films.

She also gave voices to Radio channel promos for Indian Idol, and also dubbed Malini Sharma in Raaz and Manisha Koirala in Dushmani. She also gave her Hindi dubbing voice to other Indian actresses such as Agni Sakshi, Jai Hind, Taliban and Calcutta Mail. She even voiced Kamal Hasan’s daughter in the film, Naikan.

Dubbing Roles

Live Action Films

Year	Promo	Language
2004	Indian Idol Radio Channel promos	Hindi

Film title	Actress	Character	Dub Language	Original Language	Original Year Release	Dub Year Release	Notes
Titanic	Kate Winslet	Rose DeWitt Bukater/Dawson	Hindi	English	1997	1998	The elderly version of this character was portrayed by Gloria Stuart and dubbed by Geeta Khanna in Hindi.
Raaz	Malini Sharma	Malini	Hindi		2002	2002	Due to the actress's poor Hindi knowledge, The directors for these films, could not allow the actresses to use their real voices, so Namrata has dubbed for them to disguise their voices, despite that the movies were already shot in Hindi.
Dushmani	Manisha Koirala	Additional role	Hindi		2009	2009

Animated Films

Film title	Original Voice	Character	Dub Language	Original Language	Original Year Release	Dub Year Release	Notes
Disney's Aladdin ^[7]	Linda Larkin (Speaking) Lea Salonga (Singing)	Princess Jasmine	Hindi	English	1992	1994	Dubbed by Modi Entertainment. ^[8] Namrata has only done the dialogue voice for this character. The Hindi singing voice was provided by Suchitra Krishnamoorthi.
The Little Mermaid	Jodi Benson	Ariel (First dub)	Hindi	English	1989	????	Another Hindi dub was made in 2012 for Television where Prachi Save Sathi voiced this character.^[9]