Talking to Agratoday.in, Satish Gupta said he was currently busy mixing and innovating musical effects for a new film by Rajpal Yadav, which could be a trend setter. Nadim who made ‘Chori Chori Chupke Chupke’ was also interested in outsourcing sound recording work to the Agra studio. "The facilities here are second to none, in fact much better than most sound recording studios, and more importantly it is the personnel behind those machines who create the magic through meaningful pauses and oomphs," Satish said.

 The studio in Agra has been set up by him in collaboration with Ashok Jain, the producer of the unique theatrical and audio-visual show ‘Mohabbat the Taj’ which has set new standards of excellence, combining latest electronic gadgetry with live theatre performances, backed by audio-visual effects in a specially built auditorium.

 Satish said some of the songs that he recorded in Mumbai like ‘Bheege Honth Tere…’ or ‘Sandeshe Aate Hain…’, were backed by imaginative recording techniques, that won him so many laurels.

 “Normally if a song becomes a hit, credit goes to the music director and the lyricist. But the crucial role of the sound engineer is rarely recognized,” Gupta said.

 When Gupta left the Maithan mohalla of Agra in 1969 to join a course in sound engineering at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune, no one thought he would one day become one of Bollywood’s top sound engineers without whose assistance the likes of Lata Mangeshkar or Asha Bhosle would hesitate to record songs.

Gupta completed his course in 1971 and was lucky to get a break with RK Films and Studios straight away, meeting Raj Kapoor and Alauddin Khan sahib, his guru. Later he joined the Shakti Samanta camp as Dialogue Recordist. But since producers were not good paymasters, he joined a pharma company as an audio-visual engineer.

Destiny forced him to return to Bollywood courtesy Joe D’Souza and since then there’s been no looking back.

“I have worked with legends like Khayaam, Naushad, OP Nayyar, Shankar Jaikishan, SD Burman, Kalyanji Anandji, Vasant Desai,” he said.

He looks back with satisfaction as he shows his bundle of trophies - he won four Zee Cine awards for “Border” “China Gate”, “Kachche Dhage”, and “Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai” for best song recording and four IIFA awards for “Murder”, “Koi… Mil Gaya”, “Kachche Dhage” and “Kaho Naa… Pyaar Hai”.

In the past one year, several film units have shot films in Agra. The Taj Mahal and the Fatehpur Sikri complex, remain hot favorites. Last month Katrina Kaif and Imran camped in Agra for a 10-day shoot for Mere Brother ki Dulhan.