Sonal Kaushal – The Indian Voice of children’s favourite Doraemon and Chota Bheem

Sonal Kaushal is a successful dubbing artist and voice artist, best recognized as the voice behind the famous animated character, Doraemon and Chota Bheem. It has been more than 13 years since Sonal is giving voice to Doraemon in Hindi version. Doraemon, a popular Japanese animated series for children is already a big hit in India. Sonal has been voicing Doraemon since 2005, when she was just 13. Now she has passed 25 years and till doing the same, apart from accepting a few more characters. She has also worked as a dubbing artist for Bollywood films, ads and for TV shows.

Sonal was brought up in Delhi. She came to know about the audition of Doraemon from her mother, a radio announcer of AIR Delhi. UTV was conducting the auditions. During auditions she was asked to sound like a robot. She got selected, and today Doraemon is one of the most popular kids’ show on television with more than 478.5 million viewers. In 2013 she shifted to Mumbai. As UTV Disney was based in Delhi, they tried for a suitable replacement. When they couldn’t find it, Sonal started recording her lines from Mumbai and still follows the same. Since 2014 she has been giving voice for Chhota Bheem also.

Sonal Kaushal – Some interesting and less-known facts

1. Earlier her daughter used to listen to the cartoon characters dubbed by her and now her son too.

2. Sonal’s mother was a casual announcer for All India Radio in New Delhi.

3. Sonal has dubbed for Amy Jackson in the movie Freaky Ali.

4. She has also dubbed for shows on NDTV Good Times, Fox Traveller and National Geographic.

5. In 2015 her career was at low because of swollen vocal chords and she was unable to speak. It was following the stress and shouts she made for dubbing a character Johnny Bravo, the most challenging character till then. After that she is quite careful when it comes to give strain to her voice.

6. Soon after the shooting of Kaabil, Hrithik Roshan called Sonal and a few other dubbing artists to his residence in Juhu. He explained that while portraying a blind person for the film, he realized how difficult it is to maintain the energy and consistency in one’s voice.