After a hiatus of over half a year, "SurveykshaN" is back. And our composer for this Desert Island survey is O P Nayyar.

There have been a few minor changes in the interface and the format, but none to cause you any problems. If it is your first time, just make sure you read the brief instructions on the survey page and you cannot go wrong.

To give you a summary, the idea is to come up with a list of most popular Desert Island Soundtracks of O P Nayyar. As a participant you have to select scores that you would like to take along on a long trip to some imaginary desert island. In other words, you are supposed to select scores that appeal to you for their repeat value and solitary listening pleasure, among other things.

The list of all film scores composed by O P Nayyar is provided on the survey page to select from. The list is based on information gathered from the various sources on and off the Internet.

You can choose up to 15 scores. There's no lower limit. And here comes a new change. Based on suggestions received, you can now also select up to 15 songs in addition, from films which are not in your selected albums list. Just think of it as a single-cassette compilation of songs from those albums which you wouldn't want to include in your precious full-album space.

The poll page is self-explanatory. Apart from selection of albums, you need to provide your name and email address. Also, please provide your overall rating of O P Nayyar's music. When you submit your entry, you will see a confirmation page with a list of the movies and songs selected by you. Please save the list with you and you will save me some work if you need it later.

I have also added a few niceties to make things easier for you. To help remember the songs of a particular movie, you can now search giitaayan and MusicIndiaOnline sites directly from the page, by selecting the movie name and clicking on the respective site's icon. Just remember that these are mere aids and are not supposed to provide complete or even accurate information. Also, for selecting a movie, you can now simply double-click on it. Same thing for removing it from the selected list.

The survey will be open at least up to Sunday, Jan 8th, 2006. It may then be extended further based on responses, requests, and other considerations. You can submit your entry more than once using the same name and email ID. Only the last submitted entry will be considered valid. Please use your popular name/alias and a valid email ID.

The results of the survey will be posted here soon after its conclusion.

And yes, SurveykshaN has a new URL now, so please note carefully. Here's the one for OPN survey:

http://survey.giitaayan.com/opn/

Comments are welcome.

Thanks,

Vinay
http://survey.giitaayan.com/