[3][4] He won the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing, along with Richard Pryke and Ian Tapp, for Slumdog Millionaire.

[5] Pookutty has worked in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,[6][7] Marathi [8] and Malayalam languages in addition to British films.

Pookutty had to walk 6 km to the nearest school and study in the light of a kerosene lamp as his village had no electricity.

"[4] Pookutty made his debut in sound design with the 1997 film Private Detective: Two Plus Two Plus One, directed by Rajat Kapoor.

He subsequently engineered sound for major productions like Musafir (2004), Zinda (2006), Traffic Signal (2007), Gandhi, My Father (2007), Saawariya (2007), Dus Kahaniyaan, Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja (2009) and Enthiran (2010).