RMIM Puraskaars for Year 2013 Announced

Results of the Eighth RMIM Puraskaar are now available.

‘maa.Njhaa’ (Kai Po Che) is the "Song of the Year". The "Album of the Year" is Lootera. (Well done, Amit Trivedi.) To find out other worthy albums, songs, and artists of the year, visit the Puraskaar site.

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

Special thanks to our jury members: Meera Damji, Priya Deshmukh, Ramanand J, Pranav Jhumkhawala, Yunus Khan, Naresh Khattar, Hemendra Kumar, Rohit Mehrotra, Megha Murthy, Sanjeev Ramabhadran, Shalini Ramachandran, Shalini Razdan, Nishant Shah, Amit Kumar Sharma, Karthik Srinivasan, Zafar Syed, Arun Verma, and Vikas Zutshi.

Visit the Puraskaar site to see the results and leave your comments: http://awards.giitaayan.com/2013/

Congratulations to all the artists who made to the Puraskaar list.

RMIM Puraskaar for 2012 announced

The Puraskaars for year 2012 have been announced and are now available online.

The Album of the year and Satish Kalra Samman was won by Barfi. Music composers of the year were Amit Trivedi and Pritam (jointly). Amitabh Bhattacharya was declared the Lyricist of the year. Shreya Ghoshal and Arijit Singh were adjudged Female and Male Singer of the Year respectively.

To see the complete results or leave your comments, visit the Puraskaar site.

RMIM Puraskaar 2012: Nominations Open

The nominations for this year's (2012's) RMIM Puraskaars are now open for public.

Please visit the Puraskaar Nominations page and submit your favorite songs of the year. The nominations will be open for about three weeks (till the end of December).

Also check:

• Wikipedia list of Hindi movies released in 2012
• Last year's puraskRRits
• Introductory post of RMIM Puraskaar

RMIM Puraskaar for 2011 Announced

RMIM Puraskaar results for year 2011 are now available online.

Rockstar dominated the top categories. The "Satish Kalra Sammaan", the benchmark honor presented to albums that are considered all-time greats, was also conferred on Rockstar this year. Other albums that were appreciated included Tanu Weds Manu and 7 Khoon Maaf.

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.

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/