Resul Pookutty working on an European movie

First, it was Mira Nair, who finished the post production of her film The Reluctant Fundamentalist in Mumbai with Shimit Amin. It is now the turn of actress-filmmaker Liv Ullman who is putting together a docu-feature on Ingmar Bergman, to do the same.
At the helm of the project is Grammy winning sound designer Resul Pookutty. The diarist has learnt that Pookutty has been holed up in his studio in the Andheri suburbs, finishing off the final mix for the film.The docu-feature traces the lives of two cinematic legends – Bergman and Ullmann, how the filmmaker discovered the actress, mentored her and their tumultuous relationship. Pookutty is about to take the digital version of the film, being made by Ullmann, for a closed screening at Cannes. In a conversation with the diarist, Pookutty revealed that he is asked often why he chose to work on an European movie. “If Slumdog Millionaire can be made here why can’t we make a film in Europe? Hollywood is not the beginning and end of cinema. There is a lot of tasteful work being done in Europe,” he says. We could not agree more.