Vivek Sachidanand


Vivek Sachidanand is an Indian sound designer, sound mixer and recordist.

Early life and education

Vivek studied audiography from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Vivek had a passion for music from early on and he studied classical music and taught himself to play a variety of musical instruments.

Career

He began a serious pursuit of his interests in music and sound when he joined the FTII at Pune. There his ideas on the use of sound as a means of story telling, and not merely as a background prop, took shape. He won the Indian National Film Award for the film Ksha Tra Gya where he demonstrated his innovative and occasionally iconoclastic approach to sound design.
After leaving FTII he trained with renowned Sound Designers P M Satheesh and Academy Award winner Resul Pookutty and developed his own style of sound mixing and design. From there he went on to found Hashtone Post Sound with an idea of exploring new and uncharted avenues of sound in filmmaking and otherwise. Since then he has been involved in a number of successful Indian and internationally acclaimed projects.

Filmography

YearTitleDirectorLanguageNotes
2013
2012
2012
2012
2011		Qissa
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
English
Warning
Yeh Saali Zindagi		Anup Singh
Mira Nair
Shyamaprasad
Gurmeet Singh
Sudhir Mishra		Hindi
English
Malayalam
Hindi
Hindi		ADR
Production Sound Mixer
Production Sound Mixer
Production Sound Mixer
Production Sound Mixer
2011Miss LovelyAshim AhluwaliaHindiProduction Sound Mixer
2010Jhootha Hi SahiAbbas TyrewalaHindiSound Designer & Production Sound Mixer
2010ChangeAbhijatha UmeshEnglishSound Designer
2009God Lives in the HimalayasSanjay SrinivasNepaliSound Designer & Production Sound Mixer
2009Acid FactorySuparn VermaHindiProduction Sound Mixer
2009Fast ForwardZaigam Ali SyedHindiSound Designer
2008HullaJaideep VarmaHindiSound Designer
2008Leaving Home: The Life and Music of Indian OceanJaideep VarmaEnglishSound Designer & Location Sound Recordist
2008Slumdog MillionaireDanny BoyleHindi & EnglishSound Recordist
2007Gandhi, My FatherFeroz Abbas KhanHindiAssistant Sound Recordist
2007FrozenShivajee ChandrabhushanHindiSound Designer
2006ZindaSanjay GuptaHindiADR Recordist
2005Kal: Yesterday and TomorrowRuchi NarainHindiSound Designer