Meghana Erande (or Meghna Sudhir Erande, Mēghanā Sudhīr Ēraṇḍē) is an Indian actress and voice actress. She is popularly known for voicing Hattori from Ninja Hattori animated series in Hindi. She has been working in the industry for more than 30 years.
Dubbing career
Meghana first auditioned for Disney's DuckTales series in 1989.[1] She was favoured among 25 artistes to voice for the titular character of Ninja Hattori series. She has dubbed Canadian actress Pamela Anderson's role as C. J. Parker in Baywatch, on all the episodes on the seasons she appeared in, and other films since as for some roles in some of the Barbie films and other roles as well, such as Denise Richards's role as Kelly Lanier Van Ryan in Wild Things and Angelina Jolie's role as Police Officer Amelia Donaghy in The Bone Collector, both of which were dubbed in Hindi much later in 2010.[2] She worked on regional national channel on a programme called DAHAVI DIWALI.
She can do voices for children, teenage girls and young women, and she has also dubbed for many Bollywood actresses.
Dubbed for this character for three episodes throughout her appearances in Seasons 5-6, which includes the Christmas special. Meena Gokuldas previously voiced her in the episodes of the first 4.
First dub 5/12/2003-10/2013 (India) 2004-2013 (Pakistan) Second dub 5/19/2014-Current
The First 8 seasons dubbed, were based on the 4Kids Entertainment English dub. The later seasons were also dubbed in Hindi and are also revised translations based on the English dub. A Second Hindi dub has been produced featuring a new Hindi voice cast and translation by UTV Software Communications and aired on Hungama TV. The first dub that Erande was involved in, was produced by Sound & Vision India for Cartoon Network India, Cartoon Network Pakistan and Pogo. Sabina Malik Mausam voiced this character in the second Hindi dub.
Her name was mentioned in the Hindi dubbing credits that were shown after the original ending credits. For Tallulah, only her dialogue was dubbed into Hindi. The Hindi singing voice for Tallulah was performed by Sunayana S. Dasgupta, who also serves as the director of the Hindi dubbed songs.[5]
Meghana voiced speaking parts of Elsa in the Hindi dubbing of Olaf's Frozen Adventure, Singing voice is provided by Tarannum Malik, This movie's Hindi dub was shown in cinemas on 24 November 2017 free with Pixar's Coco, And It aired on 30 December 2017 on Disney Channel. And This movie is available in CDs from 8 January 2018. She was credited with her nickname Meghana Joshi in Cinemas End Credits.
Meghana was called in to dub the dialogues during post-production because Kim was not good in giving a particular Marathi accent, thus ending up speaking in a typical Machchiwali style. Dissatisfied by the director, Meghana was then contacted to dub for Kim to make her accent sound better, even though this film was already shot in Hindi.
She only voiced this character in this film only. In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets where she originally made her first appearance, she was dubbed by another Hindi voice actress.
