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Resul Pookutty Born 1971 Anchal, Kerala, India Occupation Film sound design Years active 1997 - present Spouse(s) Shadia [1] [show]Awards won Academy Awards 2009: Best Sound Mixing for Slumdog Millionaire BAFTA Awards 2009: Best Sound for Slumdog Millionaire Resul Pookutty (born 1971) is an Academy Award and BAFTA Award winning Indian film sound designer and mixer.[2] Pookutty is from Vilakkupara, Kollam in Kerala.[3] He is the first Indian and only Asian to win the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing. Contents [hide] 1 Early life and background 2 Career 3 Personal life 4 Awards 5 Filmography 6 External Links 7 Reference // Early life and background Resul Pookutty was born in a Muslim family in Vilakkupara, Anchal 23 km from Kollam, Kerala. He was the youngest of eight children born to an impoverished family. His father was a private bus conductor, and he had to walk 6 km to the nearest school and studied in the light of the kerosene lamp as their village had no electricity [4][5]. He is a 1995 graduate from Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.[6] Career Pookutty moved to Mumbai after his graduation. He termed it as "a natural immigration as a graduate of the institute." He pointed out that "Ninety-five per cent of the technicians of the Mumbai film industry are alumni of FTII, Pune."[7] Pookutty made his debut in sound design with the 1997 film Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One, directed by Rajat Kapoor. He got his big break with the critically acclaimed 2005 film Black, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. He subsequently engineered sound for major productions like Musafir (2004), Zinda (2006), Traffic Signal (2007), Gandhi, My Father (2007), Saawariya (2007) and Dus Kahaniyaan (2007).[8] In an interview in February 2008, he named Gandhi, My Father as one of his "most emotional(ly) troubled film". He said "I got emotional. I wept. I was emotionally troubled while mixing the film. There is lot of me in the film. I tried to get a particular texture, its kind of ageing in Gandhi's voice from his young to old days. We worked on that with actors, in the mixing stages, to get a particular texture which involved lot of multi-micro phoning and multi-track recording and effectively used that."[9] He described working with Danny Boyle, whom he describes as one of his favourite directors for Slumdog Millionaire as a "completely new experience". He said "The format was never a concern. Let it be film, let it be video, let it be still camera, the sequence has to be shot. The film was demanding a particular format and not the format was deciding the film. So we shot on many kinds of film cameras, more than fifty percent in digital camera."[10] He expressed his disappointment on the dearth of recognition for technical work in Bollywood films in the same interview: "Everything is technical excellence, it's all related to commercial success of the film. That is very, very sad. That only happens in Hindi cinema. Whereas
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