A day after the announcement of the 65th National Awards, Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty took to Twitter to air his displease about the award committee's decisions. He tweeted that it was high time the National Award Committee got ‘some serious technicians on board’ to judge the awards they give. In a series of tweets, he pinpointed that they failed to understand the work of a sound designer and sound recordist, referring to the audiography award given this year to Mallika Das for Rima Das’ Village Rockstars.
“When the sound is recorded on camera, 90 per cent dialogues are distorted. When entire rain, wind, village ambience were recreated in a studio with careful sound designing, the award goes to audiography! That makes me question the award committee’s tech know how!”, his tweet read.
“It’s a shame to see that this year’s National Award for audiography is being given to somebody who has not touched an audio equipment in her life! Sad!”
Interestingly, Resul shared his joy over the National Award win of Sanal George for best sound design, mentioning that he was the winner of the Resul Pookutty-IIFA Foundation Scholarship at the FTII.
The remarks, however, have caused an uproar in social media with many feeling that he was going overboard with the reaction and he could have kept his differences subtle.
