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 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.

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

सतीश कालरा सम्मान - Satish Kalra Sammaan

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 announcement

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

RMIM Puraskaar

For long, we the listeners, the consumers, the connoisseurs, the people have been constantly frustrated by the music awards given by the Filmfares and the Screens of the world. Lack of objectivity, poor selection method, arbitrary shortlisting, lower focus on music awards, and a total failure to balance popular appeal and quality of soundtracks have been some of the regular "features" of these awards.

It's time we had a way to recognize the better efforts, the creativity, the innovation, without being unduly influenced or pressured by market forces or popularity of soundtracks. It's time we had our own awards. Besides, when every Ram, Shyam, and Ghanshyam is handing out awards like rewa.Diis, there's no reason why a die-hard HFM (Hindi Film Music) listening community that spends so much time filling discussion forums on the net with its raves and rants, thoughts and opinions about the music, should not get to honor something that it likes, even if only in pixels (i.e. no real rewa.Diis).

In the past, there have been several discussions and attempts on RMIM (newsgroup rec.music.indian.misc) to introduce such a thing. But for one reason or another, the idea never really left the threads of the newsgroup. This is an attempt to bring it to reality.

Presented, hereby, are RMIM puraskaar for year 2006.

To send your entry, just visit the submission site at the URL given below. All you need to know for submission is supposed to be on the site. Please read every word carefully including the ones that appear on the hover of your mouse, in balloon boxes. If you still have any questions, feel free to ask them here or at RMIM.

The awards are open like RMIM and everyone on the net can vote. You just need a name and a valid email id. It would help if the name you use is the same as the one used at RMIM or another music forum on the net. Any dubious-looking entries will not be considered.

If you have modifications to your entry, simply send it again, using the same name and email id. Only your last entry will be considered valid.

The tentative last date for submission is March 3, 2007.

Finally, thanks to Asif Alvi, Afzal Khan, Ketan Dholakia, Ritu Chandra, Satish Kalra and U V Ravindra for their inputs, encouragement, and beta testing.

Here's the URL:

http://awards.giitaayan.com/

Keep checking this blog for related news. And spread the word.