Justin Jose
Award Name : National Film Awards
Year of Award : 2016
Award for : Arts
Location : Trichūr, Kerala, India
Justin Jose is an Indian Sound Engineer and Sound Mixer He has worked in Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and Malayalam films. He was born on October 11, 1980 in Thrissur. He did his graduation in Economics from St.Thomas College, Thrissur. After that he did his diploma in Audio Recording from Chetana Sound Studio, Thrissur. He had also secured 4th grade of electronic keyboard from Trinity College of Music, London. He started his career from music industry & has worked with many main stream music directors in South Indian industry. After that he moved to Mumbai in 2003 and worked as an assistant to Deepan Chatterjee for two years. In 2005 he became premix engineer, and as an independent sound engineer he marked his debut with Bollywood films in the year 2008.
ome of his noted Bollywood works as a sound engineer and Re-recording Mixer are Airlift, Kanche, Tamasha, Bajirao Mastani, Bombay Velvet, Madras Cafe, Roy, Barkhaa, Sonali Cable, Inkaar, Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurana, Happy New Year, Bang Bang, English Vinglish, ABCD: Any Body Can Dance, Nautanki Saala! etc. Njan Steve Lopez, Cinema Company, Second Show etc are among Malayalam works. He has also worked for a few English to Indian dubbed movies. In 2016, he has been announced as the winner of Best Audiography (Re-recordist of the Final Mixed Track) at National Film Awards 2015. He won this achievement for the Bollywood film, Bajirao Mastani. Justin has been in the limelight since the making of the magnum opus Baahubali: The beginning. He led the team to do the sound mixing work of the movie and the whole work was conducted at Future Works, Mumbai and took a whopping 750 hours, setting a new record. Justin's latest work is Akshay Kumar starrer Airlift, the highest grosser among Indian movies 2016.