Oscar-winning sound designer Resul Pookutty is just back from Oslo from the premiere of Liv & Ingmar in which he is one of the prime architects. So moved was the legendary Scandinavian actress Liv Ullman by Resul’s dedication to realizing her dream that she acknowledged him as her son in public.

On Sunday evening last week while performing live in Oslo Adnan Sami broke down and wept in front of 40,000 people. The stunned audience which just seconds earlier was clapping and cheering and singing along didn’t know how to react to Adnan’s sudden mood swing. They sat in pin-drop silence as Adnan stopped mid-way through a song and …well, according to his wife Roya who was in the audience, he simply wept like a baby. In all these 25 years as a live performer Adnan has never been known to let his emotions take over his professional judgment. So what gave?