Chennai: Close on the heels of Oscar-Grammy winning music composer A R Rahman alleging that a gang was working against him in Bollywood, another Oscar winner from the south has now made a similar accusation.
Sound designer Resul Pookutty on Monday said he stopped getting work in the Hindi film industry after he won an Oscar for ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, with some production houses telling him upfront that they didn’t need him at all.
“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 don’t need you’ but still I love my industry, for it taught me how to dream,” he said in a tweet to filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, who had supported Rahman.
Pookutty said there were a handful of people who believed in him and continue to do so. He said he could have “easily shifted to Hollywood” post his Oscar win but he didn’t.
“My work in India won me the Oscar, I got nominated six times for MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors) and won too, again all that for the work I have done here… There will always (be) people to run you down but I have far more faith in my people than anybody else!”