Surveykshan 7 Results, Desert Island Soundtracks of Naushad Options

[v9y]

Hi all:

Thanks to everyone who participated. It was a special SurveykshaN, in tribute to the legendary Naushad who passed away earlier this month. The survey received 53 valid entries. To give some perspective, the number of entries for OPN was 49, S-J 69, Salil 44, and Madan Mohan 31.

To summarize the process, the voters were supposed to select their favorite desert-island film scores composed by Naushad, keeping the number limited to 15. A list of film albums was provided. In addition, they were also free to choose up to 15 songs from other albums (not selected in their list) of Naushad.

I now present the results with a brief analysis. Feel free to comment or add your own analysis, or even ask for a specific data, if I have missed any. Apart from the individual lists, I will try to provide whatever I can. Corrections are welcome.

All percentage scores below have been rounded to the nearest integer.

The results will also be available soon on the web at:
http://survey.giitaayan.com/naushad/

Highlights
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Total movies included in the survey: 65

* Number of movies selected by at least one participant: 42 (65%)

* Movies selected by...
Over 95% participants: 1 (all-time SurveykshaN record score)
over 75% participants: 3 (OPN: 9; S-J: 0)
over 50% participants: 11
over 10% participants: 29
less than 3% participants: 7

* Number of movies selected from...
1940s: 14
1950s: 11
1960s: 13
1970s, 80s, 90s, 2005: 1 each

* Total points scored by movies from...
1940s: 174 votes (25% of total votes)
1950s: 265 votes (39%)
1960s: 225 votes (33%)
(all selected: 681 votes)

Decade-wise 1950s seem to be, not surprisingly, the most popular period. From 50s although only 11 Naushad movies were selected (less than those from 40s or 60s), their combined score was higher than movies from 40s or 60s, which means that they appeared in lists of more people.

* Top scorer movie was selected by: 52 (98%) participants
* Second best scorer movie was selected by: 42 (79%) participants
* Third best scorer movie was selected by: 41 (77%) participants

* Total additional individual songs submitted: ~144 by 26 participants

Participants (53)
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Participants: Abhay Jain, Afzal A. Khan, Ajay Kumar Saxena, Ajit Rajwade, Ali Rashid, Amarendra R Nargundkar, Amit, Anand, Anand Tiwari, Anant Rege, Anil, Animesh, Archisman Mozumder, Arun Verma, Arunabha, Asad ur Rahman Kidwai, Asif Alvi, Deepak Sabnis, Hrishi, Irfan Anwar, Kamaal Mustafa, kcp, Ketan, Maajid Maqbool, Manish, N. Sridhar, Naresh Khattar, Neha Desai, Niketan, Pankaj Vyas, Pavan Jha, Prithviraj Dasgupta, Raaz., Rajat Bhatnagar, Ritu Chandra, Robin Bhat, Sancho Chandran, Sathya Sekar, Satish Kalra, Shalini Razdan, Shekhar, Shyamashish, Sonu, Srinivas Ganti, Surjit Singh, Tabassum Hijazi, UVR, V Ravi Kumar, V S Rawat, Vijay Kumar, Vinay, Vish Krishnan, Zafar Syed

* Overall rating of participants with respect to Naushad's music in general

4 (7%) Fanatics
25 (47%) Fans
15 (28%) Like
5 (9%) OK
0 (0%) Don't Like
4 (7%) No answer

* Number of movies selected by each participant
8 (15%) participants selected all 15 albums and 15 songs
29 (55%) participants selected all 15
4 (7%) participants selected 7 or less
26 (51%) participants selected additional songs (valid entries only)


Scores (in percentage of participants)
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The winner, as clear as it can be, is "Baiju Baawra". It has an unprecedented popularity, getting selected by over 98% voters, or in other words of all but one (the one voter who did not pick it anyway selected only 5 albums and rated Naushad as "OK"). The next score "Andaz" is full 19% point behind the first, still getting an impressive 79% selections. The third most popular album is "Mughal-e-Azam", losing to "Andaz" by just one vote, getting over 77% selections. 40s, 50s, and 60s share one spot each on top 3.

98 Baiju Baawra
 
79 Andaz 
77 Mughal-e-Azam 

72 Udan Khatola 
68 Mere Mehboob 
66 Kohinoor 
64 Mother India 
62 Amar 
60 Shabab 

55 Anmol Ghadi 
51 Ganga Jumna 

47 Deedar 
40 Shahjehan 
40 Aan 
38 Rattan 

34 Babul 
34 Leader 
32 Dil Diyaa Dard Liyaa 
30 Dulari 
28 Mela 
25 Pakeezah (with Ghulam Md) 

19 Dillagi 
19 Ram Aur Shyam 
19 Aadmi 
19 Saathi 

15 Dard 
15 Anokhi Ada 
15 Sohni Mahiwal 
15 Palki 

9 Sangharsh 
8 Son Of India 
8 Saaz Aur Aawaaz 

4 Daastaan 
4 Diwana 
4 Love And God 

2 Prem Nagar 
2 Mala 
2 Sharada 
2 Geet 
2 Chandni Raat 
2 Teri Payal Mere Geet 
2 Taj Mahal (2005) 


Additional song choices (top 15 spots)
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In all, over 140 songs were chosen. Due to technical considerations, I am posting only the top 15 scorers here. I will post the rest of the list at the web page http://survey.giitaayan.com/naushad/ along with the results in a couple of days. The scores before the songs show the number of participants who added the respective song in their list.

12 suhaanii raat Dhal chukii - Dulari
11 afsaana likh rahii hoo.N - Dard
8 aaj kii raat mere - Ram Aur Shyam
7 milate hii aa.Nkhe.n dil huaa diiwaanaa kisii kaa - Babul
7 nain la.D ja_ihe.n - Ganga Jamuna
6 aaj mere man me.n sakhii - Aan
6 Gam diye mustaqil - Shahjehaan
6 ta ra ri ara ri - Daastaan
5 a.Nkhiyaa.N milaake - Rattan
5 bachapan ke din - Deedar
5 husn-e-jaanaa idhar aa - Saathi
5 javaa.N hai mohabbat - Anmol Ghadi
5 kal raat zi.ndagii se - Palki
5 phir terii kahaanii yaad aa_ii - Dil Diya Dard Liya
5 saavan aaye yaa na aaye - Dil Diya Dard Liya
5 teer khaate jaaye.nge - Diwana
...

Thanks again to all participants. I hope everyone enjoyed it. Suggestions are welcome for future surveys.

Vinay
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SurveykshaN (http://survey.giitaayan.com/)