BENGALURU:
National award
winning
Kannada movie
‘
Dollu
‘, which also won an award for Best Location Sound Recordist (for sync sound films only), stirred up a controversy with Oscar winning sound mixer
Resul Pookutty
and the movie’s sound designer
Nithin Lukose
alleging that the award jury had erred as it was a “dubbed film, and not sync sound”.
‘Dollu’ director: Could have been clerical error
While both Pookutty and Lukose took to Twitter and argued that the movie’s soundtrack was never a sync sound but a dubbed soundtrack, the producers and director clarified they never claimed their movie’s sound quality to be ‘sync sound’ at the time of applying for the national award.
The jury is yet to comment on the issue. Barely a few hours since the announcement of the 68th National Film awards,
