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Shantanu Hudlikar

Shantanu Hudlikar

Shantanu started his professional career as an engineer in the year 1990 at The Music Room, Bombay. Starting off as a general gopher he went on to head the studio as Chief Engineer in 1991. In this capacity he engineered numerous radio and television commercials, documentaries, independent artistes, and a couple of feature films. After recording and mixing the sophomore album ‘2nd Coming’ for Rock Machine, India’s premier rock band, Shantanu started cutting his teeth as a system engineer and FOH engineer.

Subsequently he toured with the band, as well as other acts within India, Europe and the UK. His roster is impressive ranging from small homegrown acts to super stars. From 1992 till 1995 Shantanu was assistant FOH at the North Sea Jazz Festival held in The Hague, Netherlands. During this period, he assisted on acts such as BB King, Airto Moreira, Dizzy Gillespie, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Metallica, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, amongst other jazz, fusion, and rock giant Santana on the Milagro tour.

In 1995 Shantanu turned independent, engineering advertising jingles, indie artists, film soundtracks and film scores. 2002 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 From 2005 till August 2020, Shantanu helped establish and set up YRF Studios, Mumbai. He also took on the role of Sr. Sound Engineer, heading the largest recording studio in this country and putting it on the world map. Shantanu currently consults extensively and is also the Technical Director at Sound and Vision Studios, one of India’s largest media localization companies.

Shantanu is also adjunct faculty at the True School of Music, teaching Advanced Mixing and Mastering, Surround Mixing and Mixing to Picture. Till date Shantanu has engineered documentaries, stage shows, plays and almost 1000+ jingles, 1000+ Indian films, including some big hits such as Kal Ho Na Ho, My Name Is Khan, Bunty Aur Babli, Dhoom Trilogy, Rock On, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Musafir, Masaan, Agneepath, Uri, Mission Kashmir among just a few.

Shantanu’s studio career credits speak for itself, having recorded/mixed music for the likes of Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Rupert Hine, Gustavo Santaolala, Dr. Ilaya Raja, Nitin Sawhney, Rupert Hine, Matthew Della Polla, Joel Hamilton, John Leckie, The Bombay Dub Orchestra, Deep Forrest, Ranjit Barot, U Srinivas, Anoushka Shankar, Karsh Kale, Shakti (featuring John McLaughlin, Ustad Zakir Hussein, Vidvaan Vikku Vinayakram, U Srinivas, Selva Ganesh and Shankar Mahadevan), Soulmate, Summersalt, Rock Machine/ Indus Creed, A R Rehman, Indian Ocean, Roy Venkatraman, Mohini Dey, Sivamani, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Asha Putli, Louis Banks, Vishal & Shekhar, Pyarelal Sharma, Colonial Cousins, Amit Trivedi, Pritam, Salim-Suleiman or young artists like Gino Banks, Advaita, Tarun Balani Collective, Black, Adil & Vasundhara, Parvaaz, Blackstratblues and many more.

He has worked extensively with the young turks of the Hindi film industry such as Sameer Uddin, Meghdeep Bose, Tanuj Tiku, Aditya Pushkarna, Shashwat Sachdev and John Stewart amongst others, and music composers such as Vidyasagar, Thaman, GV Prakash and Jim Satya from the South Indian film industry. Shantanu is probably the only contemporary engineer in India to have recorded large orchestras comprising of 80 odd musicians such as the Bablesburg Film Orchestra, under the baton of the celebrated conductor Matt Dunkley, The Grand Philharmonic Orchestra, London conducted by maestro Ricardo Averbach and The Indian Army Brass Band of the Mahar Regiment, for the only new martial tune of independent India called Shankhnaad.

He has also worked with celebrated international composers such Mychael Danna, Andrew T Mackay and Tuomas Kantelinen and Gustavo Santaolalla. Shantanu has worked with some of the finest names in advertising and film such as Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, Chaitanya Tamhane, Anurag Kashyap, Shaad Ali, Kabir Khan, Ali Abbas Zafar, Nikhil Advani, Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar, Highlight Films, Whitelight Moving Picture Company, Genesis, Yashraj Films, Dharma Productions, Excel Entertainment, Amir Khan Productions and Vinod Chopra Productions to name but a few. Shantanu’s genius of recording and mixing music, from folk to Western and Indian classical, and everything in between, has made him an inspiration to not only established engineers, but also young and upcoming engineers from India all over the world.

Shantanu’s sheer passion, enthusiasm and high caliber craftsmanship has not only won him technical and popular awards, but has won him the respect of everyone he has associated with, for his single-minded pursuit of sonic excellence, with an onus on acoustic recordings both analog and digtal, using complex recording and mixing techniques as well as imparting education, by sharing his knowledge and experience by way of lecture demonstrations, videos and master classes.