Resul Pookutty Reacts To Flak Over Kanguva's Loud Background Score: High Time Our Fraternity...

Suriya starrer Kanguva is being heavily criticised by cinemagoers for the loud background score, causing a "headache". Now, Oscar-winner sound designer Resul Pookutty has reacted to flak and urged the music fraternity to put their feet down. He penned a long note on his social media handle sharing that it's "disheartening" to see negative reviews about sound in a popular movie.Our craft and artistry caught up in the loudness war: Resul PookuttyTaking to his Instagram handle on Thursday, Resul shared a screengrab of a news article that reads "The film is criticised for its excessive volume, with loud dialogue and music that detracts from the overall experience, making it one of the loudest films in the theatres." Sharing the post, he penned a long note in the caption about how a friend of his sent him a clip of the audience criticising the sound."A friend of mine, a re-recording mixer send me this clip…. It is disheartening to see a review about sound in our popular films like this. Our craft and artistry caught up in the loudness war… who is to blame?! The sound guy?! or the innumerable fixes comes at the last moment to satiate all insecurities. High time our fraternity to put your foot down and say things loud and clear. No film will have a repeat value if the audience walk out with head ache!" the caption reads. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Resul Pookutty (@resulpookutty) Netizens express their ordeal after watching Kanguva in theatresSoon after he dropped the post, netizens flooded the comment section expressing their experience of watching the movie in theatres. A user wrote, "I am an ardent Suriya sir fan Watched Kanguva at Broadway Cinemas Epiq screen , Coimbatore,but this film literally raised my BP and it also triggered the Migraine, at one point i thought of leaving the theatre . Never ever in my theatrical visits I thought of leaving the theatre due to bad Sound mixing ,but this film made me too."Another user blamed the director and pointed out, "Even the previous two movies of the same director ( vedhalam and vivegam) were also noise pollution and caused me head ache.. I literally told the theatre staff in Vedhalam interval to reduce the sound."(A screengrab from the post | Image: Instagram)The third user wrote, "Very well said. It was so hard to sit through the film and worried if we would even get hearing loss! High time film@makers stop making changes till the last minute."What is the first-day box office report of Kanguva?Helmed by Siva, the movie earned around ₹22 crore on the first day of its release. The Tamil version of the film minted ₹13.65 crore with Hindi and Telugu collectively adding ₹8.25 crore to the opening day total. The movie was hyped to top the box office charts but failed to beat Indian 2's opening day collection by ₹3.6 crore.

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Resul Pookutty Reacts To Flak Over Kanguva's Loud Background Score: High Time Our Fraternity...

Kanguva: Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty penned a note expressing that it's "disheartening" to see negative reviews about sound in a popular movie.

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