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About 300 people from the film industry and the FTII, including Om Puri, Nandita Das and Subhash Ghai, were present. Rajat Kapoor, with whom Pookutty debuted, gave vignettes of the 37-year-old Oscar nominee’s life: a boy who studied by a kerosene lamp; an FTII graduate who dreamt of popularising sync sound; a man who invested all his savings to set up a sound studio and took time off films to design sound pieces for an installation in Rome. Pookutty then shyly disclosed that he almost walked out of Slumdog Millionaire that has won him the nominations. As he revelled in the sound of applause, the FTII announced that in 2010, its 50th year, it will institute an award for excellence in films.
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