Resul Pookutty stands by his words against National Awards jury

Ever since Oscar award winning sound designer Resul Pookutty criticised the National Awards Jury for presenting the Audiography Award to someone ‘’undeserving’’, in his view, he has been bombarded with brickbats. Many commented that he had a grouse only because he himself did not win an award.
The award had been presented to Mallika Das for the film Village Rockstar.
However, Resul has no intentions of taking back his words, and has clarified his stance further in a long Facebook post. “For everyone who is attacking me on my National Award comment, Village Rockstar was completely post produced in my studio literally free of cost, so I’m very sure of what I’m talking about. When I talk about technical work there are things to look at, let Amrit Pritam who has sound designed the film refute me! I shall take my comments back.”
He asks, ‘’The film’s recording does not qualify any tech standards towards which a National recognition is to be bestowed upon! What technical and artistic integrity you need to put the sound in auto record mode in a camera?! And I came down vehemently on the constitution of the jury, not the artist, by way of awarding NFA this way, the committee derecognize the rest of the sound recording community... this is purely because the jury could not differentiate the work done by a sound mixer and a sound designer!
Either we have too many awards for sound which a particular committee is not able to judge in fine lines or we don’t have enough qualified technical talents in the committee. This needs to be fixed!’’ he wrote.
Resul had commented earlier that the award committee has failed to differentiate the work of a sound designer and a sound recordist. “When the sound is recorded on camera, 90% of the dialogues are distorted. When the entire rain, wind and 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! It’s a shame to see this year’s National Award for audiography given to somebody who has not touched an audio equipment in her life!” he had tweeted.