Other than being an academy award grabbed for the first time by an Indian sound engineer, Resul Pookuty's Oscar honour has some other definitive reasons to be really special.

The first point is that Resul was able to get the award which he shared with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryk after competing with some of the most acclaimed mavericks of the art of sound amalgamation in the world.

When it is considered that he was able to get the Oscar competing with veterans who hail from a film industry that has been using the live sound recording technique for several decades, Resul's success becomes all the more sweet. The other factor is that he got the award for a vocation and an art which cannot be even termed as to be in its nascent stages in the different film industries in India.

In Bollywood as well in the other film industries of the country the practice to record live sound while shooting which also includes absorbing dialogues at the location itself have not yet been able to grow its roots firmly.

For a sound engineer who has an exemplary body of work competent enough to compete with the best of sound mixing talents of the world, the scenario in India was quite discouraging.

Some days back Resul, while giving an interview, had said that Bollywood still has not completely grasped the perfect usage of sound and how the quality of sound in cinema can be enhanced.

A tinge of frustration was very much evident when he added that although his work for 'Black' was good enough it was not given a National award.

Resul also had a revelation to make. He told that his work for the movies 'Gandhi My Father' and 'Saawariya' are much better than what he has done for 'Slumdog Millionaire'.

Describing the challenges faced by him during the shooting of Danny Boyle's film Resul told that he had to completely change the way he used to work before. He had to believe more on his instincts rather than on time-tested techniques as new ways to get the perfect feel of the surroundings via the sound had to be invented on the spot.

Resul used 16 microphones kept hidden on the roads as well as the narrow paths and had to make sure that during the shots having the actors standing amid huge crowds, the dialogues of the characters get recorded as Danny Boyle wanted.

For his work in 'Slumdog Millionaire', Resul had also got a nomination for the best production mixer for the prestigious Cinema Audio Society of America (CAS) awards.

The Cinema Audio Society was formed in the year 1964 for the purpose of sharing information with sound professionals in the motion picture and television industry.

Rasul Pookuty's skill in sound mixing got more recognition after the release of the highly acclaimed flick 'Black' in 2005.

He has also designed the sound for such films like 'Zinda', 'Traffic Signal' and the recent blockbuster 'Ghajini'. Some of his future projects include the next film of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 'Rectangular Love Story' to be directed by Rajat Kapoor, 'Rangeen In Love' to be made by a debutant director Sharad and Saurabh Shukla's 'Pappu Can't Dance Saala'.

The Academy Award is not only an accreditation for Rasul's talent but the honour is also fate's recognition of the guts shown by the young Rasul to believe in his resolve to drop from the law college and join the film institute in 1995 and to also go against his father's wish to see him as a doctor.

Well, we are so proud of you and your work. We wish you the best in future too!