Bollywood film gets a score release for the "first time" in history

Just thought I'd share this with you guys... I opened Yahoo! India to check my mail when I saw this news that the forthcoming film "Sarkar Raj" directed by Ram Gopal Varma had its "background soundtrack" launch yesterday night. I assumed this was some dialogue CD release because out here we almost have never had a separate score release for films except for short theme pieces with the regular OSTS, and once in a blue moon there have been 2 disc releases with a usual songs CD and the another containing a few pieces of score, but never a standalone score release. However, on reading the article, I was amazed seeing that it was actually a real score release!

"For the first time in the history of Bollywood, a film will have its background score releasing separately. Yes, its Ram Gopal Varma's most awaited film Sarkar Raj whose background score will have separate release.

Confirming the news with Bollywood Hungama RGV informs, "It was because of the tremendous popularity of 'Govinda Govinda' theme earlier in the prequel, Sarkar, which made us take this decision. Moreover, the decision is also the consequence of an inspiration from the Hollywood tradition of releasing the background scores separately."

He goes on to add, "The idea of releasing out the background score before the release of the film itself is that audience after watching the film can relate the theme music with the dialogues of the film since every track is titled after all the important dialogues in the film. And at the end of the day, background theme is there to enhance the scene of the film."

Revealing about his fondness for background score in the film, he excitedly says, "I have this special inclination towards background theme since childhood. I remember I would go to the cinema halls only to listen to background music with my eyes closed."

Titled 'Power of Sound', the background score album will soon hit the stores and the film has its release slated on June 6. "

http://www.indiafm.com/news/2008/05/28/11475/index.html

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage … M+released

I'm surprised they did take the initiative to release the score, even if it was a kind of attempt to mimic their Hollywood counterparts, seeing that there can't be more than 2-3% of the whole population of our country who actually pay some attention to a film's score. But anyway, it looks as though the awareness of film score is slowly, MUCH slowly, but steadily growing these days. Such a thing was absurd to think about some 7-8 years ago!