There was no such fashion of having any 'official dates' for music releases, until Ramgopal Varma introduced it with Daud. He aimed at having the music copies reached at all the places before a particular date, and then 'officially release' it. Only Sony BMG (earlier Sony Music) has been so far able to follow the dates that they declare. T Series may be the only surviving giant in the industry in these times of recession, but they have their own style of working. Their management largely delegates their distribution to small scale companies; and since a lot of things depend upon many factors, they really have no official dates. Most of the music companies in the Hindi film industry are basically family owned companies, and as Chord says, we can see the Chalta Hai attitude with them. AR has nothing to do with all this, and many times he won't even be having any idea about these things.
Thanks, - On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Chord <purev...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Excellent points and very in much in line with my thinking. The > professionalism of the entire music release process is very much lacking, if > compared to the West. It is unfortunate that not enough people care as much > about this as you and me and only some others. I too have commented about > this in the past. This is not ARR's fault at all, BTW, but a whole > systemic/mentality issue of the music companies and the whole "chalta hai" > attitudes. > > > --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com <arrahmanfans%40yahoogroups.com>, > "rivjot" <riv...@...> wrote: > > > > It is almost a tradition that Rahman's albums dont get released on time. > Whenever a date is 'announced' for music release, it never gets released on > time... then fans get frustrated, start cursing music companies (especially > T-Series) and bring up the point of being 'professional' with music > releases. > > > > So now that AR Rahman is just not AR Rahman, everywhere his name is > mentioned as 'Academy Award Winner AR Rahman.' Isnt it about the time to > become professional. Here by being professional, I mean giving some > estimation on music releases on official website. > > > > Last release was Delhi-6, and its track list was not updated on the > website either (before CDs came in the market). Now we see Sultan & Blue in > upcoming release section, but nobody has clue when (in which month) they > will release. Of course, soundtrack release dates also depend on movie > release date and that does get shifted etc. But what about Connections? When > is it going to be released - will it ever release? I see every second day > people posting messages here, when will Sultan release? When will > connections release? and so on.. > > > > PS: Sorry if I sounded rude... > > > > >
