Anish John


Anish John is a film sound designer, and mixer. He won the National Award for Best Sound Design for the film Labour of Love. He bagged the Best Sound Design award at the 63rd Filmfare Awards and also at the , for the film Trapped, this being his second win in the same category after winning at the , Mumbai, India. He is the Sound Designer of the Netflix series 'Sacred Games'. He was also the production sound mixer for Newton. Anish has worked in English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, and Marathi films, besides having worked on numerous documentaries and creative advertisement projects.

Early life

Born and raised in Kolkata, Anish did his schooling at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, and continued with college in the city itself, at St. Xaviers College. He then pursued his higher education, focusing on a formal film education, doing a three years course in Film Sound from the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.

Career

Anish moved to Mumbai after his graduation. He started his career as a sound recordist and editor for various shorts, narrative features and documentaries before shifting to sound-designing and mixing. His projects span a wide range from Indian narrative features, Ship Of Theseus, I.D., to noted International film and TV productions, such as Million Dollar Arm and 24.

Filmography

YearName of AwardName of FilmLanguageAwardee
2014National Film Awards Silver Lotus Award for Best Audiography Asha Jaoar MajheBengaliAnish John
2015Jagran Film Festival Award for Best Sound Design Asha Jaoar MajheBengaliAnish John
2017Film Fare Award for Best Sound Design AwardTrappedHindiAnish John
2017Jagran Film Festival Award for Best Sound Design TrappedHindiAnish John
2018News 18 Reel Movie Awards for Best Sound Design AwardTrappedHindiAnish John