By Hindustan Times
Aaamir Khan’s recently concluded Satyamev Jayate is under fire again, this time from his own fraternity. Oscar-winning sound specialist Resul Pookutty has hit out on the humanitarian TV show for being “doctored.”“Satyamev Jayate was an absolutely doctored show. A LARGE NUMBER OF sound post-production work was done at the show. It was treated similar to a movie. Like the way you sound (mixing) is handled in a movie to be able to kind of emotionally blackmail audiences. That’s what was done with SMJ,” he says.
Pookutty, who won the Academy Award for Slumdog Millionaire (2008), is a part of TV personality Tim Sebastian’s much-awaited debate series, The Outsider, that's touted to be at the lines of Satyamev Jayate. But, he insists that “we are doing no such manipulation.”
He promises that the show, produced by Sobo Films (that’s co-owned by Smriti Shinde, daughter of the present Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde), can be “at par with international programming”.
“Yes, some sound and post-production work have been done for the show but that’s meant only to compare as much as the international TV standards. Otherwise, we aren't doing anything to emotionally manipulate by means of sound post-production. We're staying true to the theory of discussion and acumen of Tim (Sebastian),” says Pookutty. Satyamev Jayate had also run into controversies earlier.
The host channel of Aamir Khan’s show, Star Plus, in addition to the actor had not reacted to Pookutty’s allegations till the time the tale was published.
Controversies within the past
Two fake websites of the show sprung up in a bid to dupe viewers into donating money — meant for an NGO — to the inaccurate source.Delhi-based band Euphoria alleged that the chorus of the show’s 22-minute anthem, Satyamev Jayate, were lifted from the band’s decade-old song, Satyameva Jayate.
An episode addressed medical malpractices in India, enraging doctors. An umbrella body of 21 medical institutions asked Aamir Khan to apologise, which he did over the past episode on August 15.
