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Wonderful Discussion and excellent points Plum and aakarsh!

We used to know that Maestro's music wherever played, it absorbs you. That's why we can see many say (including our own App) that his music was popular even in buses, tea shops, barber shops. This is true for every earlier composers too. So dismissing the score just based on Mono/Stereo effect is just betraying themselves. I believe it was already decided to blanket dismiss SRR in any category. Even leave out SRR, if there are any political/personal conflicts, but what about other films which Maestro did last year, especially ASK. Jury has watched that film and gave away couple of awards too. Didn't they hear the score? If I agree they didn't have a stereo in their theatres, that's why they rejected SRR, for ASK, nothing is required of that, there is feel in everybit of score. If you are able to hear 'Laptop' without Stereo and appreciate it, why not the same could be done for ASK? Just the title score alone is enough to bag any award.

Leave out the film and score, what is the criteria for the songs. Still they need to hear the song with visuals and hear it once before deciding or they pick up the CD and listen to them separately? With visuals it should have been absorbing. Even if it is latter, the Bengali film songs does not stand even a smallest chance possible against SRR (or any IR soundtrack released last year). Also going by the thumb rule of classical music getting advantage, we are at no advantage this year, why? That was a monstrous contribuion to Indian classical/folk music with a perfect blend from the west.

If Plum's expectation shattered from Guru, mine shattered from the day when SRR/ASK was not awarded for music category. As Plum mentioned, next year will be a smooth ride for many, even if Maestro comes up with brilliant score in Dhoni/Mayilu/NEPV, as that will be ruled out against the classical music in Sai Baba or some obsure movie called 'iPad'.

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I heard from ARR forum that rockstar was not even submitted to the jury which is even more pity compared to IR films (atleast these films were atleast played to them). I don't know why all this happening this year? I am more surprised there because it even won Film fare award.
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