IRAA Jury 2024

Pramod Chandorkar - IRAA Director

Dr.Pramod Chandorkar - Award Director is an Eminent Recording & Mix Engineer and Founder & Director, Soundideaz Studios & Academy. Pramod Chandorkar has been working as a Sound Engineer in the music industry from 1995 till date. He has worked on numerous mega-hit albums and films as a Chief Sound Engineer. He is one of the few audio engineers who have excelled in all branches of audio ranging from music recording, live sound, film sound design and studio design and audio education. Click here for more

Ashish Saksena

Ashish Saksena is an Eminent Recording & Mix Engineer and Director of Purple Haze Studios. He has been in the music industry for over 30 years and has worked on many prestigious projects with music directors like Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal & Shekhar, Louis Banks, Ram Sampat, Ranjit Barot etc. He also engineers live concerts for Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, the late K.K, etc. Click here for more

Donal Whelan

Donal Whelan is an Eminent Mastering Engineer based in UK. Donal's mastering career spans over 30 years, including 15 years mastering Indian film and non-film music. With a degree from the prestigious Tonmeister course at Surrey University and 10 years' experience mastering in London at Chop em Out and the Townhouse, he established his own facility, Hafod Mastering, in Wales in 2004. Click here for more

Indrajit Sharma (Tubby)

Indrajit Sharma known as 'Tubby' is an Eminent Music Composer/ Arranger/ Producer.In his career span of over 3 decades, Tubby has Produced and Composed music in all genres from Jingles to Film Songs, Independent Albums to Original Background Scores, With hit films like My Name is Khan, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, Guzaarish, 2 States & more recently Raazi & Toofan under his belt, he is among the country's most celebrated Background Score Composers and over last 10 years he is also acknowledged as a jazz fusion musician as well, having represented India in festivals overseas with his band 'Pitara'. Click here for more

Jim Satya

Jim Satya is an Eminent Music Arranger, and Music Producer. Jim Satya, the Music Arranger, and Music Producer, is a well-known name in the music industry. He was born in a family of musicians and has completed his Grade Exam from Trinity College of Music, London. His experience as a music arranger has spanned numerous award-winning feature film projects in multiple languages like Barfi - winner of Filmfare and various awards in Background score and songs categories. Click here for more

Mujeeb Dadarkar

Mujeeb Dadarkar is an Eminent Sound Engineer and Co-founder, OdBle Consultants. Mujeeb Dadarkar, Sound Engineer and Co-founder Odble Consultants, is a well know name in the music industry. He has been a recording engineer and technical consultant to the Audio/ Video industry since 1983. His experience as a sound engineer has spanned numerous documentaries, advertising and feature film projects. He has also worked extensively as live sound engineer for world-class artistes like Ustad Zakir Hussein. Click here for more

Raag Sethi

Raag Sethi is a multi award-winning producer, engineer, guitarist and bassist from Ahmedabad, and also the founder of Compass Box Studio. He has been instrumental in promoting indie talent in Gujarat and India through the one take Compass Box Live Sessions on YouTube. His work has been featured on almost every major music publication in India. His work spans multiple genres, and has worked extensively with indie and label artists. Click here for more

S Sivakumar

S Sivakumar is the Chief Sound engineer at A.M. Studios, Chennai (associate studio of A.R.Rahman) which handles song recordings / back ground scores/ sound editing and final DTS and Dolby film mixing and final mastering.He is armed with a BSC and D F Tech degree from FTIT , Tharamani , Chennai. Sivakumar has worked with many other prominent film directors and producers such as K. Balachander, Bharathiraja, Mani Ratham, Shankar, Subash Ghai, Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Ashutosh, M.F. Hussain Click here for more

Shantanu Hudlikar

Shantanu started his professional career as an engineer at The Music Room, Bombay. Starting off as a general gopher he went on to head the studio as Chief Engineer. In this capacity he engineered numerous radio and television commercials, documentaries, independent artistes, and a couple of feature films.Shantanu later turned independent, engineering advertising jingles, indie artists, film soundtracks and film scores and after a couple of years saw him return as house engineer when he took over the reins at Empire Studios, Mumbai where he engineered many hit films and indie records such as PDV and Groove Suppa Click here for more

Sreejesh Nair

Sreejesh Nair is a Pro Audio Application Specialist, AVID and Dolby Atmos Certified Mix Engineer.He owns to his credit a span of 21 years of experience as a Sound Mixer in the industry. Sreejesh is a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering and has mastered Audio Engineering From Chetana Sound Studios, Thrissur. He started his career as assistant sound re-recording mixer in Rajkamal (FutureWorks) studios and has worked on more than 200 movies since then. He was part of the First Dolby Atmos Mix theater installation in India and the first Dolby Atmos Premiere mix room in the world. Click here for more

Subhash Sahoo

With 31 years in the film industry as a Sound Designer & Sync Sound Engineer, Subhash Sahoo has worked on 160 films. Notable films include Omkara, Kaminey, OMG-2, Ram Setu, Khosla Ka Ghosla, NH 10, Neerja, Tumhari Sulu, Once Upon a Time in Mumbai, Budhia Singh: Born to Run, etc., collaborating with directors like Vishal Bharadwaj, Shyam Benegal, Sudhir Mishra, Dibakar Banerjee, Ram Madhvani, Navdeep Singh, Amit Rai, and more than 60 others, both on location and in post-production. He has also worked as a Sound Designer in Marathi, Punjabi, Bengali, and Assamese languages. Click here for more

Vijay Benegal

Vijay Benegal is an Eminent Recording & Mix Engineer and Co-Founder, OdBIe Consultants.Vijay Benegal's career as an independent Sound Engineer has spanned close to three decades with experience on diverse sound recording and mixing projects for radio, films, television, and music albums. Artists he has recorded for include Ustad Zakir Hussain, Indus Creed, Shankar Mahadevan, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar, Ranjit Barot, and many more. Film recording projects have included album and background scores for Dil Chahta Hai, Lakshya, Armaan, Kaante, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and others. Click here for more

Yogesh Pradhan

Yogesh Pradhan is an Eminent Music Arranger.Yogesh Pradhan is an Eminent Music Arranger. Yogesh Pradhan is a well-known Violinist, Bollywood Music Arranger & Music Composer who has worked on numerous albums and films. As Violinist, he has worked with leading music directors such as R.D.Burman, Laxmikant Pyarelal, Raamlaxman, Rajesh Roshan, Anu Malik, Nadeem-Shravan Etc. As music arranger, he has worked with Ismail Darbar, Adnan Sami, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit, Sajid-Wajid, Vishal Shekhar and many more and has to his credits, films like Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, Devdas, Bhool Bhulaiyaa, Lucky, and many more. Click here for more

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