Thanks for sharing. On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Ramanand J <quatrain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The relatively less-known RMIM Puraskaa <http://awards.giitaayan.com/>r > are an effort to allow listeners like ourselves to pick the best of Hindi > Film Music in a particular year after reasonably elaborate and cogent > analysis. The results of the third edition were recently made public and can > be seen here <http://awards.giitaayan.com/2008/indexen.htm>. While the > Best Album was adjudged to be "Rock On!!", A.R.Rahman was voted the Best > Composer for the year. There are several other categories as well, and the > list of best songs <http://awards.giitaayan.com/2008/songs.htm#songs> has > comments from the jury members which may make for interesting reading. > > Am sure many of you would have several opinions on the results, so would > encourage you to write to the organiser of these awards Vinay Jain (giitaayan > at gmail dot com) who would welcome your views. In some sense, the whole > point of the awards is to let us, the average but non-random listeners, to > record our views of the year gone by, as opposed to the usual gun-for-hire > award shows that serve as a record of a year's quality. > > Disclosure: I was a part of the jury this year. (With apologies for the > ego-link) My own views are recorded at my blog > here<http://quatrainman.blogspot.com/2009/02/rmim-puraskaar-2008-results.html>- > for instance, my own best album pick was Jodhaa Akbar (I know many of you > have discussed the best of last year in this group, but this is on a > slightly broader canvas with many views, not necessarily all from Rahman > fans). > > Thanks for the patient reading, > Ramanand > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Webpage: http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~ramanand > Weblogs: > Personal: http://quatrainman.blogspot.com > Interrobang (the quiz blog): http://notesandstones.blogspot.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > >
