: The Oscar Curse: 2009 awardee Resul Pookutty looks back at his struggles #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment <br>Pookutty shared the award with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke. The then 37-year-old Pookutty

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The Oscar Curse: 2009 awardee Resul Pookutty looks back at his struggles #IndiaNEWS #Entertainment
<br>Pookutty shared the award with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke. The then 37-year-old Pookutty was an unknown name in the country, but it was not to remain so after the Oscar.
But the highlight was when the then Left government led by V. S. Achuthanandan decided to give him a heros welcome and the person who was asked to head the welcoming committee was the then Culture Minister M. A. Baby, at present a CPI-M politburo member.
And on that day in 2009, his tiny village in Kollam district Anchal woke up to welcome their dearest son.
Soon Pookutty became the most popular personality in Kerala and stories of his childhood and how he studied under a kerosene lamp and his daily walk to the school about 10 kms all became news.
Also written was how a bus checkers son, the youngest of eight children, the hardworking Pookutty was able to rise to the highest level.
Pookutty as is now known to all, after his graduation gave up his course in law, reached the Pune Film Institute, graduated with flying colours and began his film career.
His debut in sound design came with the 1997 film Private Detective and then came, Two Plus Two Plus One, directed by Rajat Kapoor.
And it was in the 2005 film Black, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, that he firmly inked his name in the industry and since then he has gone from strength to strength.
Then came Musafir (2004), Zinda (2006), Traffic Signal (2007), Gandhi, My Father (2007), Saawariya (2007), Dus Kahaniyaan and Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (2009), and Enthiran (2010).
In 2012, Pookutty was in the news when to honour his fathers wish, he completed his law course and enrolled as an advocate.
In between he was also heard saying that he had difficulty finding work in Bollywood after winning the Academy Award, but is glad that the Oscar Curse is over.
Pookuttys statement came in the wake of Shekhar Kapurs tweet to Oscar-winning composer AR Rahman, telling the musician that the Hindi film industry refused to give him work because he had won an Academy Award, which proved you have more talent than Bollywood can handle.
Opening up about his struggles, Pookutty tweeted to look back at the time when he was nearing a breakdown.
Dear @shekharkapur , ask me about it, I had gone through near breakdown as nobody was giving me work in Hindi films and regional cinema held me tight after I won the Oscar There were production houses who told me at my face we dont need you but still I love my industry, for it, he tweeted.
The sound engineer added that he could have moved to Hollywood but he did not.
My work in India won me the Oscar. I got nominated six times for MPSE and won too There will always be people to run you down but I have far more faith in my people than anybody else, he shared.

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