Rasool Pookutty is a name very popular all over India and he is a pride of each and every Malayaleese. He is one among those few artist and technicians who had won the most prestigious award in world cinema which is Oscar award. Rasool Pookkutty had won this prestigious award for sound mixing for the film named Slumdog Millionaire some years back along with A R Rahman who won it for music direction, and original score. Lyricist Gulzar also won the Oscar award for his lyrics for the same film. And they become the artists and technicians who won an Oscar after Bhanu Athaiya from India who had won this award many years ago for costume designing for the film named Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough.
After that Rasool pookkutty had worked in a Malayalam film named Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja conceived by Hari Haran and scripted by M T Vasudevan Nair. He had also done the sound mixing of Salim ahammad film named Kunjananthante Kada and he is also working in the upcoming Salim Ahammd film named Pathemari. After the Oscar winning film Slumdog millionaire he worked in big films like Endhiran, Kochadiyan, Highway etc in Kollywood as well as in Bollywood.
The latest news about him says that Rasool Pookkutty is all set become a director and it will be produced by his own production company as well. The first venture of his will be in Bollywood and it will start filming in the coming 3 months. But Rasool says that he is looking forward to do films in regional languages as well and in Malayalam he will do a film with Mega star Mammootty in the lead. The name of his production company is Le Penta Productions and Rasool will do the sound design of the films which he produces and directs as he is all set to do that triple role.
The Ex-chief of reliance entertainments named Mahesh Ramanadh, Kumar Bhaskar, Kuldeep Singh Rathod, Gireesh Raghavan etc are the partners of Rasool Pookkuuty in this Le Penta Productions. As a malayali everyone hoping that this will turn out to be a great venture for the master technician from Kerala.
