RMIM Puraskaar 2010 results published

RMIM Puraskaar results for year 2010 are now online.

'dil to bachchaa hai jii' from Ishqiya has been adjudged the "Song of the Year". Ishqiya also bags the "Album of the Year" award. To find out other worthy albums, songs, and artists of the year, visit the Puraskaar site.

The "Satish Kalra Sammaan", the benchmark honor presented to albums that are considered all-time greats, has not been presented to any album this year.

The jury members for this year's Puraskaar were - Neha Desai, Ramanand J, Pavan Jha, Pranav Jhumkhawala, Gajendra Khanna ('Hildebrand'), Amarendra Nargundkar, Mihir Pandya, U V Ravindra, Shalini Razdan, Shashi Rao, Sowmya Saiprasad, Karthik Srinivasan, Vibhendu Tewari, Rakesh Tyagi, and Arun Verma.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the process and made this happen.

Visit the Puraskaar site site to see the results. You can also comment on the web site.

Nominations for 2010 RMIM Puraskaars are open

The nomination process for year 2010's Puraskaars is now open.

Please visit the Puraskaar page and submit your favorite songs of the year. The nominations will be open for about three weeks.

Also check:

• A (most likely complete) list of Hindi movies released in 2010
• Last year's puraskRRits
• Introductory post of RMIM Puraskaar

RMIM Puraskaar 2009 results are out

RMIM Puraskaar results for films released in year 2009 are hereby announced.

The "Song of the Year" is 'ikataaraa' from Wake Up Sid sung by Kavita Seth and Amitabh Bhattacharya. Gulaal is adjudged the "Album of the Year". To find out other worthy albums, songs, and artists of the year, visit the Puraskaar site.

The "Satish Kalra Sammaan", the benchmark honor presented to albums that are considered all-time greats, is presented to four albums this year - an unprecedented occurence. The albums are: Gulaal, Dev D, Delhi 6, and Kaminey. These albums join Omkara, Rang De Basanti, and Taare Zameen Par in the "Hall of Excellence".

Thanks to everyone who participated in the process and made this happen. I especially thank the jury members - Ketan Dholakia, Ajay Divekar, Srinivas Ganti, Pranav Jhumkhawala, Gajendra Khanna ('Hildebrand'), Subrat Mohanty, Manisha Nayak, Abhay Phadnis, Baradwaj Rangan, Arunabha Roy, Prasanna Tamhankar, Vibhendu Tewari, Rakesh Tyagi, and Arun Verma - for making it a 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
• हिंदी में परिणाम
  

Nominations for RMIM Puraskaar 2009 are open

The nomination process for year 2009's Puraskaars has started.

Please visit the Puraskaar page and submit your favorite songs of the year. The nominations will be open for about three weeks.

Also check:

• A (most likely complete) list of Hindi movies released in 2009
• Last year's puraskRRits
• Introductory post of RMIM Puraskaar

giitaayan main lyrics database is now current

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.

A total of 373 songs, submitted, reviewed and posted during a period of previous three years were moved in this process. This brings the total number of songs in giitaayan to over 10800.

SurveykshaN 11 on Anil Biswas: Announcement

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 2008 results announced

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

RMIM Puraskaar 2008 nominations are open

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

SurveykshaN 9: Desert Island Soundtracks of C Ramchandra

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/

2007 RMIM Puraskaars are out!

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