All songs submitted up to August 31st, which so far were showing up on Recently Posted Songs page, have been included in the main lyrics database. They can now be found by the regular giitaayan search.
After covering Laxmi-Pyare in the previous SurveykshaN, let's go back a little back in time for the next - the 11th - in the series. Our composer for this SurveykshaN is Anil Biswas.
Those who have participated in previous SurveykshaNs can skip the rest of the message and head directly to the Survey page to submit their entry.
To those who are new to SurveykshaNs, here's a short introduction. The idea of the exercise is to come up with a list of most popular Desert Island Soundtracks of the composer(s) in question. As a participant you have to select scores that you would like to take along on a long trip to some imaginary deserted island. In other words, you are supposed to select scores that appeal to you for their repeat value and solitary listening pleasure among other things.
The list of all film scores composed by Anil Biswas is provided on the survey page to select from. In addition, link to a document containing all songs composed by him is also available on the page (Thanks to 'the Bible' i.e. Geet Kosh for the data and RMIMers Balaji, Ketan, and Vinayak for extracting and digitizing the Anil Biswas list).
Note that many of the films had compositions by other music directors too, as can be seen from the song-list document. Please consider those albums only for the songs composed by Anil Biswas.
You can choose up to 15 scores. There's no lower limit. In addition to the albums, you can also select up to 15 songs from films that are NOT in your selected albums list. Just think of it as a one-cassette/CD compilation of songs from those albums that you wouldn't want in totality, or those that are not in your top 15.
There are no changes in the interface and the format since the previous SurveykshaN. If it is your first time, just make sure you read the brief instructions on the survey page. There's not much to go wrong anyway.
The poll page is self-explanatory. Apart from your selections, you need to provide your name and email address. Also, please provide your overall rating of Anil Biswas's music. When you submit your entry, you will see a confirmation page with a list of the movies and songs selected by you. Please save the list for your records.
You can search giitaayan for lyrics and Phulki.com for audio of songs directly from the survey page; just select the movie name and click on the respective site's icon.
The survey will be open at least up to Saturday, June 20th, 2009. It may then be extended further based on responses, requests, and other considerations. You can submit your entry more than once using the same name and email ID. Only the last submitted entry will be considered valid. Please use your popular name/alias and a valid email ID. The results of the survey will be posted here soon after its
conclusion.
Here is the survey URL:
http://survey.giitaayan.com/ab/
RMIM Puraskaar results for year 2008 are now out.
'Rock On' is adjudged the "Album of the Year". The "Song of the Year" is 'kabhii kabhii aditi' from 'Jaane Tu Yaa Jaane Na'. For other puraskaars and a complete list of ranked songs, visit the Puraskaar site (http://awards.giitaayan.com/) and find out other worthy albums, songs, and artists of the year.
The "Satish Kalra Sammaan" was not conferred on any album this year. As you may know, it is a benchmark honour and is given only when an album is considered all-time great. Unfortunately no album this year deserved it.
Thanks to everyone who participated in the process and made this happen. I especially thank the jury members - Aditya, Abhay, Ajay, Chetan, Ketan, Manish, Manisha, Megha, Ramanand, Sanjeev, Subrat, and Yunus - for a rather smooth and enjoyable exercise for me. I hope it was the same for them.
Follow the links below to see the results. Feel free to be happy or raise issues with them. If there are any corrections to the P-stats please let me know.
* Results in English
* परिणाम, हिंदी में
It's that time of the year again. Let's find out what worthwhile music came out of 2008. To start, point your browsers to the Puraskaar home and nominate your favorite songs of the year.
If you participated last year, the process has changed somewhat. Instead of selecting albums, you are now supposed to let us know your favorite songs. Of course you may still choose every single song of an album. But number of selected songs cannot be more than 30.
The nomination page mentions everything you need to know. Please read everything carefully and select your albums judiciously before you hit the submit button. If you have modifications to your entry, simply submit a new one using the same name and email id. Only your last received entry will be considered valid.
The nomination process will remain open at least until mid-January.
So revisit the year (see a list of released movies), note what you liked and submit your entry. And please spread the word too; the more nominations, the better.
* Last year's puraskRRits/ पिछले साल पुरस्कृत कलाकार
* History (and the reasons) of the Puraskaar
The ninth survey in the SurveykshaN series is here and as many of you may already know, this time we are going to track desert island scores composed by C Ramchandra.
To those who are new to SurveykshaNs, the idea of the exercise is to come up with a list of most popular Desert Island Soundtracks of the composer in question. As a participant you have to select scores that you would like to take along on a long trip to some imaginary deserted island. You can think of it as an exercise to select scores that appeal to you for their repeat value and solitary listening pleasure among other things.
I am thankful to downmelodylane.com for the basic list of Hindi film scores composed by C Ramchandra. Generous and quick corrective responses from Mr. Harish Raghuvanshi (through RMIMer Shri), Dhananjay Naniwadekar, and Urzung Sb have also been incorporated in the final list. I have not included co-composed movies that had less than 3 songs by CR. You are free to select CR-composed songs from those movies in the individual songs section.
Quick summary of rules:
* You can choose up to 15 albums.
* There's no lower limit.
* In addition to the albums, you can also select up to 15 songs, from films which are NOT in your selected albums list. Just think of it as a one-cassette/cd compilation of songs from those albums that you wouldn't want in totality, or those that are not in your top 15.
* You can submit your entry more than once. Just use the same name and email ID. Only the last submitted entry will be considered valid.
* Please use your popular name/alias and a valid email ID.
There are no changes in the interface and the format since the last SurveykshaN. If it is your first time, just make sure you read the instructions on the survey page. There's not much to go wrong anyway.
The poll page is self-explanatory. Apart from your selections, you need to provide your name and email address. Also, please provide your overall rating of CR's music. When you submit your entry, you will see a confirmation page with a list of the movies and songs selected by you. Please save the list so that you don't have to ask me for it later.
The survey will be open at least up to Wednesday, April 30th, 2008. It may then be extended further based on responses, requests, and other considerations.
The results of the survey will be posted here soon after its conclusion.
http://survey.giitaayan.com/cr/
After a long process of nomination and jury analysis, the wait is over. The RMIM Puraskaar for 2007 are declared. And we go straight to the final list - sorry, no stage shows.
"Taare Zameen Par" wins the "Album of the Year" puraskaar. "maa.N" from the same film is adjudged the "Song of the Year". If you don't want to wait further, you can head to the Puraskaar 2007 site and see other worthy albums, songs, and artists of the year.
Thanks to the voters and everyone else who participated in the process. The jury members - Aditya, Arunabha, Ashok, Chetan, George, Karthik, Manish, Neha, Pavan, Shalini, UVR, and Yunus - did a great job and I thank them for completing a painstaking task in the given time and so wonderfully. I hope the music helped :). I especially thank George for his help with the stats of songs. (See, that's what makes these awards different. Only the organizer gets to deliver the "thanks" note, not the winners.)
Follow the links below to see the results. Feel free to link to them, discuss them, tear them apart, or send me a bouquet.
* Results in English
* परिणाम, हिंदी में
I have added an often-demanded functionality on giitaayan to accommodate feedback, comments, and suggestions in addition to the usual and main reason - discussion. giitaayan Forum is your forum.
The forum powered by Tangler provides a unique blend of chat and discussion. I hope you will like it and put it to some good use. Just make sure that the topics are related to giitaayan or Hindi songs.
Enjoy!
सर्वकालिक श्रेष्ठ एल्बम की मान्यता के रूप में दिए जाने वाले "RMIM सम्मान" को इस वर्ष से स्व. सतीश कालरा की स्मृति और सम्मान में "सतीश कालरा सम्मान" के नाम से जाना जाएगा.
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Many of you may remember that last year as part of RMIM Puraskaar there was a special award for soundtracks that got the RMIM approval for entry into the virtual RMIM hall-of-fame. In other words, it was a stamp of excellence. The honor was called "RMIM sammaan".
It is a benchmark honor and is to be given only to those albums that are deemed outstanding by the Puraskaar process. This makes it possible that there are more than one albums deserving the award in a year (e.g. last year 'Omkara' and 'Rang De Basanti' both received it). Conversely there may be years when no album gets it.
In honor and memory of Satish ji, we are going to call this sammaan "Satish Kalra Sammaan" from this year onwards.
RMIM Puraskaar 2007 are open for voting. Point your browsers to the Awards home and choose and rank your favorite albums of the year.
This year's Puraskaar are dedicated to our beloved RMIMer who left us recently - Satish Kalra. He was not just part of the jury last year but a motivating force behind the execution of this idea itself. This one is to his memories.
If you participated last year, the process remains the same except one major change. When selecting your favorite songs in the "Additional songs" list, you have to choose songs from albums other than the ones you have selected in your albums list. Last year you were supposed to list your favorite songs, including the ones in your selected albums.
In any case, that is even if it is your first time, the voting page is self-explanatory. Please read everything carefully (and of course select your albums judiciously) before you hit the submit button. If you have modifications to your entry, simply submit a new one using the same name and email id. Only your last received entry will be considered valid.
You just need a name and a valid email id to cast your vote. Any spam-like or dubious-looking entries will not be considered.
The tentative last date for submission is January 31st, 2008.
Spread the word.
* History (and the reasons) of the Puraskaar
* Last year's puraskRRits/ पिछले साल पुरस्कृत कलाकार
Due to an issue on the server hosting the ISB files, the lyrics for songs are not visible currently. Ashish Thakker, who hosts the files on his server, is away on vacation until Monday (Sep. 9). Please bear with me until then.
Rest of the giitaayan site including lyrics for "Recently posted songs" are working as usual.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
