Vijay Vikram Singh has covered enviable ground as a voice artist. He has been the voice of the popular Indian TV series Bigg Boss since 2007, and provided viewers with a compelling aural experience in reality shows like MasterChef India, Indian Idol, and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Yet, nothing could have prepared Singh for the audiobook-reading gig that came his way in 2018 by way of Swedish company Storytel.
His first book was Chandrakanta Santati, a six-part magnum opus by popular Hindi novelist Devkinandan Khatri. The book series was a sequel to Chandrakanta, which inspired the blockbuster television series of the same name in the 1990s. “The sheer scale of the story, with a cast of at least 100 characters, completely blew me away. The story and writing were better than Game of Thrones,” says Singh, who took more than two months to complete the narration, voicing all the characters. “It was unlike anything I had done in my entire career.” He would take 15-minute power naps after every 30 minutes of narration in a tiny recording studio, just to get back a sense of control over the multiple voice textures. “I get a pittance for audiobooks compared with ad films and TV voiceovers. It is exhausting. The motivation to take this on has to come from somewhere else,” says Singh.
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