Meena Menon
Meena Menon (Mīnā Mēnana, born: 27 December 1970) is an Indian voice-dubbing artist and trained singer who speaks English and Hindi as her mother-tongue languages. She currently works at Sugar Mediaz, which is an Indian dubbing studio, for Hindi dubs of foreign productions, and she mainly uses the Hindi language method majorly to perform dubbing roles for foreign productions in India, throughout the studio's run.
Meena Menon मीना मेनन | |
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| Born | 27 December 1970 Mumbai, India |
| Occupation | Voice actor, singer |
Dubbing career
Meena Menon was five-years-old, when she started through Allahbad Radio, which is a station at Allahbad. She was a trained classical singer. She sang many songs in which they really liked her talent and wanted her to conduct programs that are aimed for kids in which there were also poetry, songs, etc. She even did dubbing roles for foreign theater films along with her studies. As she got older, she used to modulate her voice and talk to people in kids’ voices. Pretty soon, she came to know about dubbing and started it eventually at Sugar Mediaz. Her Hindi dubbing roles for foreign animation started and she tried more and more voice roles and came out doing well with even dubbing teenage and kids voices of male characters in Hindi.[1]
Dubbing roles
Animated series
| Program title | Original voice | Character | Dub Language | Original Language | Number of Episodes | Original Airdate | Dubbed Airdate | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Little Bill | Kianna Underwood | Fuchsia Glover | Hindi | English | 50 | 11/28/1999-2/6/2004 | ||
| Jackie Chan Adventures | Stacie Chan | Jade Chan | Hindi | English | 95 | 9/9/2000-7/8/2005 | ||
| The Fairly OddParents | Tara Strong | Timmy Turner | Hindi | English | 126 | 3/30/2001-Current | ||
| JoJo's Circus | Madeleine Martin | JoJo Tickle | Hindi | English | 63 | 9/28/2003-2/14/2007 | ||
| Spider-Man | Sara Ballantine | Mary Jane Watson | Hindi | English | 65 | 11/19/1994-1/31/1998 | Aired by Disney XD. Performed alongside Samay Raj Thakkar who voiced Christopher Daniel Barnes as Peter Parker/Spider-Man | |
| Princess Comet | Unknown | 4–5 Characters | Hindi | Japanese | 43 | 4/1/2001- 27 January 2002 | 7/2004-2005 | Aired on Animax India. |
| Cardcaptor Sakura | Sakura Tange (JP) Carly McKillip (EN) | Sakura Kinomoto (JP name) Sakura Avalon (EN name) | Hindi | Japanese | 70 (39 dubbed) | 4/7/1998- 21 March 2000 | The Hindi dub was based on the heavily edited Nelvana English dub adaptation of Cardcaptors that ran for 39 episodes and aired on Cartoon Network India. | |
| Astro Boy | Makoto Tsumura | Astro Boy (Atom) | Hindi | Japanese | 50 | 4/6/2003- 21 March 2004 | 7/2004-2005 | Aired on Animax India. |
| Naruto | Unknown | Unknown character | Hindi | Japanese | 220 | 10/3/2002- 2/8/2007 | 2008 | |
Live action films
| Film title | Actor | Character | Dub Language | Original Language | Original Year Release | Dub Year Release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Troy | Rose Byrne | Briseis | Hindi | English | 2004 | 2004 | Dubbed for the Theatrical, Home media and Television releases. |
See also
- Dubbing (filmmaking)
- List of Indian Dubbing Artists