Shammi Narang

Shammi Narang is an Indian voice-over artist, ex news anchor, emcee and entrepreneur based in Delhi, best known for raising the standards of news-casting in India. Graduating with an engineering degree, Narang first got into the voice-over profession by working in the Hindi division of Voice of America. Later he was selected from among 100,000 candidates into Doordarshan, which was then the only channel in India, and became the face of Doordarshan news reading and Indian Television in general during the 1970s – 80s. His rendering of Sarab Sanjhi Gurbani has become the voice of Sikhs globally as well.After the advent of satellite television which brought down the TRP ratings of Doordarshan, Narang left the channel and instead started training upcoming and budding news anchors, journalists, voice-over artists and emcees. Even today, the countrys top newscasters hail him with great admiration, with many of them having been personally trained by Narang.All Hindi in-train and in-station voice messages and announcements of the Delhi Metro, Rapid MetroRail Gurgaon, Mumbai Metro, Bangalore Metro, Jaipur Metro and the upcoming Hyderabad Metro Rail are recorded in Narangs voice, thus ensuring that his voice is heard by millions on a daily basis . Narang is also the director of the well known Delhi-based Diversified Media solutions company and consortium – Pindrop Media Group – and is into making corporate films, providing corporate audio solutions, corporate event management services besides issue-based documentaries and infotainment packages for kids.

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