Kuldeep Sood is the sound mixer of films like Deewar, Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and Om Shanti Om. Here, he talks of three films that had outstanding sound mixing
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
I was very inspired by the sound
mixing in Doctor Zhivago. We didn't
have DVDs at that time so I saw it on a
VHS tape. Even then the sound work
in the film amazed me. Especially the
way the romantic scenes were done.
The use of music with its soothing
tinkle was great but the way the
ambient noise, the ruffling of the
leaves, the swooshing of the wind was
used, and the effect it created, were
wonderful. Romance in those scenes
was truly in the air.
The Cranes
Are Flying (1957)
It's a Russian movie I saw while I was
in film school. The sound
treatment was really unique.
Generally, when you have a scene in
which a woman is crying and then
you cut to another scene, it's a very
abrupt break, a transition which is
very difficult to make. In The Cranes
Are Flying, it was done masterfully.
There was a scene where a woman
shrieks in this loud and high-pitched
wail and then it cuts to the piercing
whistle of a train. The transition was
superbly done.
One of the classics of Indian cinema,
Pakeezah has a scene where a train
stops on the bridge and the whistle is
sounded. Then there's the song ‘Chalte
chalte’ where the train starts moving
again. Now the moving train is not
shown on screen at all, but the sounds
of a moving train are beautifully
mixed in with the song. You would
think that the noise of the train would
disturb the ambience created by the
song but it was so wonderfully done
that the train noises only served to
heighten the romance.
Pakeezah
(1972)
One of the classics of Indian cinema,
Pakeezah has a scene where a train
stops on the bridge and the whistle is
sounded. Then there's the song ‘Chalte
chalte’ where the train starts moving
again. Now the moving train is not
shown on screen at all, but the sounds
of a moving train are beautifully
mixed in with the song. You would
think that the noise of the train would
disturb the ambience created by the
song but it was so wonderfully done
that the train noises only served to
heighten the romance.
Doctor Zhivago
(1965)
I was very inspired by the sound
mixing in Doctor Zhivago. We didn't
have DVDs at that time so I saw it on a
VHS tape. Even then the sound work
in the film amazed me. Especially the
way the romantic scenes were done.
The use of music with its soothing
tinkle was great but the way the
ambient noise, the ruffling of the
leaves, the swooshing of the wind was
used, and the effect it created, were
wonderful. Romance in those scenes
was truly in the air.
The Cranes
Are Flying (1957)
It's a Russian movie I saw while I was
in film school. The sound
treatment was really unique.
Generally, when you have a scene in
which a woman is crying and then
you cut to another scene, it's a very
abrupt break, a transition which is
very difficult to make. In The Cranes
Are Flying, it was done masterfully.
There was a scene where a woman
shrieks in this loud and high-pitched
wail and then it cuts to the piercing
whistle of a train. The transition was
superbly done.
One of the classics of Indian cinema,
Pakeezah has a scene where a train
stops on the bridge and the whistle is
sounded. Then there's the song ‘Chalte
chalte’ where the train starts moving
again. Now the moving train is not
shown on screen at all, but the sounds
of a moving train are beautifully
mixed in with the song. You would
think that the noise of the train would
disturb the ambience created by the
song but it was so wonderfully done
that the train noises only served to
heighten the romance.
Pakeezah
(1972)
One of the classics of Indian cinema,
Pakeezah has a scene where a train
stops on the bridge and the whistle is
sounded. Then there's the song ‘Chalte
chalte’ where the train starts moving
again. Now the moving train is not
shown on screen at all, but the sounds
of a moving train are beautifully
mixed in with the song. You would
think that the noise of the train would
disturb the ambience created by the
song but it was so wonderfully done
that the train noises only served to
heighten the romance.
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