{"id":5735,"date":"2017-10-11T12:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2022-09-24T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:29:10","slug":"nihar-ranjan-samal-sound-designer-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/nihar-ranjan-samal-sound-designer-bollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Nihar Ranjan Samal: Meet the Sound Designer of \u2018Padmavati\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind the breathtaking background music of the most-awaited Bollywood period drama &#8216;Padmavati&#8217;, lies a highly talented sound designer from Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>An Award-winning sound recordist, Nihar Ranjan Samal hails from Jajpur district of Odisha. He&#8217;s an alumnus of Pune-based Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), has worked as sound designer for \u2018Padmavati\u2019. This is the second project he&#8217;s worked with Bhansali; his first project with Bhansali was in \u2018Bajirao Mastani\u2019 in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He won the National Award for his brilliant work in \u2018Madras Cafe\u2019 in 2013.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5738\" style=\"width: 585px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5738 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/440845114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/440845114.jpg 585w, https:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/440845114-90x60.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nihar Kumar Samal at the recording of \u2018Madras Cafe\u2019 that fetched him a National Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nihar had a 160-day tight schedule for \u2018Padmavati\u2019 at various locations in the country. He said the movie has been shot in sync sound, meaning the team used original sound from the locations instead of creating it in studio. Understandably, it was a challenging task.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSound designing for such type of films is really tough and at the same time, it\u2019s quite a learning experience for a technician. I am glad that we have done justice to the script and vision of the director,\u201d said the award-winning sound designer.<\/p>\n<p>The busy technician from the State is now one of the most popular sound designers in the Hindi film industry and has done more than 30 films including documentary, short and feature.<\/p>\n<p>He has worked on all kinds of films \u2013 short films, documentaries, indie feature films, regional films and mainstream commercial Hindi films as well. His filmography includes films like 3 Idiots, Vicky Donor, Tanu Weds Manu, Ferrari Ki Sawaari and Madras Cafe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5739\" src=\"http:\/\/discoverbbsr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/nihar-samal-907x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"907\" height=\"680\"><\/p>\n<p>Like every other family his family too was against his decision to purse Bollywood dreams and instead wished him to settle for a regular and secured job in Odisha.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family also opposed me a lot, but slowly I got good exposure and developed interest in sound. After my diploma film got national award, it motivated me to do more meaningful work,\u201d explained the techie who has done MSc in Physics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really fortunate that I got a chance to work with so many different directors and films of different genres,\u201d signs off Nihar.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy: Odisha Sun Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Award-winning sound recordist, Nihar Ranjan Samal hails from Jajpur district of Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[209],"yoast_head":"<title>Nihar Ranjan Samal: Meet the Sound 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