http://concertina419u.cabbycentral.com/ Inspire Minds to Change Lives id http://concertina419u.cabbycentral.com/2009/02/24/resul-pookutty-oscar-award-winner-hero-of-a-rags-to-riches-story.html Resul Pookutty hails from the nondescript village of Vilakkupaara at Anchal in Kollam district in Kerala.   Being the youngest of eight siblings, Resul did not have much ground to complain against deprivations. He used to walk 6 km to school daily. The Government school where he studied used to provide noon meal as well as that used to be the major attraction on behalf of Resul as well as numerous of his friends.   Electricity popped into his village when he left there to join the two-year pre-degree course in a college near his father’s ancestral house in nearby Alappuzha district. Cinema was far from mind, as well as Pookutty tried his hands at numerous things before straying into the world of celluloid. He reared domestic animals, sold milk, later took tuitions to finance college. For a brief while, he dreamt of becoming a doctor, but gave it up when he failed the medical entrance. After graduation in Physics, he joined the Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. However, even then, say acquaintances, sounds seemed to hold a strong fascination. “During a recent reception at the village, Resul said the chirping of birds as well as gurgling of the rivulet had at all times evoked much curiosity in him,” said his brother Baiju. Going to the cinema in conjunction with friends was the favorite pastime. It was only out of curiosity as well as peer pressure that he applied on behalf of the sound engineering course at the Pune Film as well as Television Institute of India (FTII). He failed the first time, returned to Thiruvananthapuram, as well as read up all of the books he could find on sound engineering. In the next entrance examination as well as group discussion, Pookutty passed.   It was his love of physics that made him opt on behalf of sound at the Film Institute in Pune. Those were hard times. It was the scholarship at college that helped me sail through without much difficulty”, Resul said before he left on behalf of the Oscar award ceremony.   Out of college, he worked in Rajat Kapoor’s ‘Private Detective’. A string of films followed. The break came with Sanjay Leela Bansali’s ‘Black’, which was noted on behalf of its sound mixing.   While there has been no looking back, in residence state Kerala, it is only recently that people came to know Pookutty, who has been living in Mumbai with his wife Shadiya as well as two children on behalf of the past decade. “Even the people of Vilakkupara learned about the feat of its son only recently,” said Baiju   Looking back, Resul believes even small things life stood out on behalf of sheer coincidence. His hostel room in Pune had the poster of Danny Boyle’s film, ‘Trainspotting’. And 12 years later when his phone rang, with Boyle wanting to sign him up on behalf of ‘Slumdog..’, the poster flashed in his mind.    Sound engineer Resul Pookutty became the third Indian to take Oscar glory on behalf of India by winning the award on behalf of sound mixing in ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.His regret is both parents are not alive to celebrate his Oscar nomination. He is married to Bebin Shadiya as well as they have two children-Ryan, three as well as a half years as well as Salna, one year.   Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:24:12 -0500 concertina419u