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Meet the woman behind the gravelly voice on Indian TV ads
Updated On: 13 September, 2015 02:28 AM IST | | Gitanjali Chandrasekharan
You’d recognise her if you heard her. Richa Nigam is the woman with the endearingly gravelly voice that sells you washing powder and childhood memories

Richa Nigam
Since 2007, her voice has sold you a range of products. She has told our subconscious mind “daag achche hain” and that packaged aam panna is a combination of “drinks and memories”. Yet, she looks incredulous when we say most television viewers can recognise her voice when they hear it. “When someone tells me that, I wonder if it’s grating to the viewer’s ears,” says Richa Nigam as she orders a cappuccino at the BKC outlet of an international bakery chain. The voice, she says, has been the bane of her life.



