ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION: Leela Roy Ghosh has done her M.A. in Social Antropology. Her academic Qualifications also include Diplomas in Tourism & German & Japanese languages, Research & Compilation on Folk Music/Folk stories for North London Polytechnic - London, Pre-Doctoral studies on Kolis of Mumbai and Creative Writing Course for Writers Bureau Manchester UK. Leelaji has participated in a Film Appreciation Workshop conducted by FTII - Pune and by NCPA. She has also taken part in a Computer workshop conducted by CMC and Ministry of Tourism, Govt. of India. Leelaji is the author of several books and articles. Some of her works include Introductory books on "Ganga", "Ajanta-Ellora", "Agra-Delhi", "Rajasthan", "Festivals of India" for Colour Books Library, London. She has also assisted leading Dailies and Journals for Publishing articles on India. Leelaji has also written scripts for Biographical works.

EXPERIENCE IN CREATIVE FIELDS:

MUSIC:Leela Roy Ghosh has the honor of acquiring classical vocal training from eminent personalities like Late Latafat Hussain Khan, Pandit Ramnarayan, Pandit Murli Manohar Shukla, Late Bhubaneshwar Mishra and Ustad Maqbool Hussain. She is also trained in Odissi style of singing. She has released albums of Ghazals & Geet in regional languages for leading music companies. Leelaji has given playback for Hindi and regional language films. She has produced Nursery Rhymes for Asian Children in U.K. Leelaji has performed extensively in live shows all over England, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, France, Portugal, U.S.A. and Canada. Many of her music shows have been telecast on BBC Radio & Television, Voice of America, Asian Television, New York & Washington.

DANCE: Leelaji is trained in Odissi Classical dance from Guru Kelucharan Mahapatra. She has performed and choreographed several dance ballets.

VOICING, DUBBING DIRECTION & SCRIPTING: Leela Roy Ghosh has been a voice artist since 1969. Under the proprietorship of Sound & Vision & M.A. Production, Leelaji has directed dubbing of over 150 films and serials many of which are Oscar award winning films, in various languages with special emphasis on Hindi, Bengali and English. He has supervised mixing of all Hollywood dubbed films in Dolby SR & Dolby Digital formats at Prasad Labs., Chennai, & Empire Studio, Mumbai and for the film "Matrix" ( Hindi dubbed) at Atlabs Australia. Leelaji has designed and scripted for Indian Festivals in the Reunion Islands. She has also scripted and directed over thousand musical radio programmes & documentary films.

SUBTITLING: Leelaji has carried out subtitling work for several NFDC Films.

WORK ABROAD: Leelaji has worked in London for four years as Tourism Officer for promotion of Tourism. She has organised several Indian shows, talks, slide shows/films all over U.K. and Ireland between 1982 - '86. She has performed all over Europe, United States, Canada between 1987 - '91. She has represented India for Expo'92 in Servile, Spain for three months (for promotion of Tourism & Culture). She has also worked with Atlab, Australia for final mixing & printing of Hindi dubbed film "The Matrix in Dolby Digital and Dolby SR format.

AWARDS&PRESS: Leela Roy Ghosh has won several Awards and wide critical acclaim from the Press & Television in India and abroad for music and for dubbing for U.K., U.S.A., Sony, Mumbai and Sagar Arts, Mumbai. The Asian Times, London has commended her as "The Nightingale of India". The film "JUMANJI & "RUSH HOUR" ,"EAST IS EAST" dubbed into Hindi for Columbia Tristar received rave reviews from the press of India, Bangladesh and the Gulf for its scripting and dubbing. The "MASK" received 1999's best dubbed programme by RAPA - India.



T.V.SERIALS & DOCUMENTARIES: Leelaji has made pilot episodes called "ANKHEN" for Ramanand Sagar's Sagar Arts which is already approved. She has made a documentary called "KOSHISH" on deaf & dumb painters of Orissa. She has also directed 12 episodes for ETV Channel, titled "Bollywoode Bengali" on Music Legends of India recently. At the moment she is engaged in compiling series of programmes for biographical works on Life & Times of "Ramanand Sagar" to be released on DVDs and CDs.

Mona is a graduate in B. Sc. (Statistics) and is also trained in Computer Software Applications.

EXPERIENCE IN CREATIVE FIELDS:

MUSIC: Mona has trained under Ustad Maqbool Hussain in Light Hindustani Classical Music. She has also trained briefly in western classical music and the Guitar.


DANCE: She has also trained briefly in Odissi dance.




VOICING, DUBBING: Mona Ghosh has been dubbing since the age of 5. She has dubbed for leading actresses in Hindi films (original version) and English films (dubbed version) Hindi / Bengali. She is well known as one of the leading voices in English, Hindi, Bengali and Oriya for Ad Films. She has dubbed for leading artists like Rani Mukharjee in Ghulam, Amisha Patel in Kaho Na Pyaar Hai, Reema Sen in Hum Ho Gaye Aapke.


DIRECTION & SCRIPTING: Mona has directed dubbings of numerous feature films, TV Serials, ad-films and documentaries. She has also directed the French dubbing of "Dil to Pagal Hai". She has worked with Magic Box for 2 years as Dubbing Coordinator. Mona has worked as Production Executive on talk shows such as Money Talk Plus on Jain TV and Bindaas Bol. She has also produced several radio spots and curtain raisers for ad agencies and independent clients.

Mona has also coordinated all dubbing for Sony Entertainment Television (SET).

AWARDS & PRESS: Mona Ghosh has won the RAPA award for best Oriya spot at the very young age of 6. Since then she has been continuously receiving rave reviews from the press and critics for her work.