Currently only 5-6 per cent of the total budget is being spent on voice overs in animation films. Mahesh Manjarekar has done his first voice over for Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang. The normal trend in a live action movie is to dub after the shooting is over ensuring lip sync. However, in animation voices come into play right after screenplay is done. In animation both the characters and objects talk and emote. Trained actors and professionals emote better and are increasingly used as voice overs, e.g. Shatughna Sinha was roped in as the narrator for the film Dashavatar. As the actors are matched to the scripts here voices are matched to the story. In Alibaba, John Abraham’s voice has been used. Theatre artistes are also used as voice overs. The late Sadashiv Amrapurkar had given his voice as one of the heads of Ravana in Mahayodha Ram. As voice recording is the first step in animation movie which take a long production time, actors have to wait for years before they see the characters and their performances on screen.