Rasool pookutty autobiography of a flea market

Read the review of Oscar Award-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty's autobiograpy

He may be ‘India’s best known sound designer and audiographer’, as the book jacket says, but Resul Pookutty sounds just like a lad from a small village set deep into the backwaters of Kerala.

It could be straight out of Swami and Friends, or Malgudi Days, that RK Narayan classic made for television. The way he tells it (in translation by KK Muralidharan), life was a bucolic existence, full of masti and replete with good things to eat and scoldings — and more — from Umma, Pookutty’s mother.

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Though he says how tough life was as a freelance sound engineer in Mumbai, it is almost an in-passing observation, with the story skating neatly over the nasty bits and dwelling, instead, on feelings.

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