• Desert island albums, scores, and participants
• Desert island songs (additional)
• Complete filmography of Anil Biswas (PDF)

In this SurveykshaN, participants were asked to select up to 15 film albums composed by Anil Biswas for a desert island scenario. In addition, they could also optionally select 15 songs (exclusive to the selected albums).

Tarana turned out to be an overwhelming favorite selected by about 84% participants. Aaram was second with about 77% selections. At the third place, not far behind, was Anokha Pyar with 70% selections.

Highlights

* Total Anil Biswas movies (included in the survey): 88

* Number of movies selected by at least one participant: 44 (50%)
36 of these were chosen by two or more participants.

The selections are interestingly divided. Whereas over 2/3rd participants agreed on three particular albums, most of them differed on the rest of the choices. Out of 44, only 15 movies were in over 25% participants desert island boxes. Also, only 5 albums were in the list of over 50% voters.

* Movies selected by...
over 80% participants: 1
over 70% participants: 3
over 50% participants: 5
over 25% participants: 15
over 10% participants: 31
less than 5% participants: 8

Decade-wise, 50s clearly turned out to be the favorites. In the top-10 spots, 7 are from 50s, 2 from 40s and 1 from 60s.

* Number of movies selected from...
1930s: 2 (5%)
1940s: 13 (30%)
1950s: 25 (57%)
1960s: 4 (10%)

* Total voter selections of movies from...
1930s: 7
1940s: 99
1950s: 197
1960s: 29
(All selected): 332

* Top scorer movie was selected by: 26 (84%) participants
* Second best scorer movie was selected by: 24 (77%)
* Third best scorer movie was selected by: 22 (71%)
* Total additional individual songs submitted: 91 by 19 participants

Participants (31)

Abhay Jain, Abhay Phadnis, Aditya Pant, Afzal A. Khan, Ajay Divekar, Ajit Rajwade, Amarendra R Nargundkar, Anand, Arunabha, Ashok, Asif Alvi, Dr Durgaprasad Agrawal, Kalyan Kolachala, Ketan, M Ahmad, M V Devraj, Maajid Maqbool, Mahesh, Neha, Pavan Jha, Ritu Chandra, Sagar Chand Nahar, Sathya Sekar, Shalini Razdan, Shirish Koyal, Srinivas Ganti, Subrat Mohanty, Sukesh Hoogan, Surjit Singh, Vijay Kumar, Vinay

* Self-rating of participants with respect to Anil Biswas's music
Fanatics 8 (26%)
Fans 14 (45%)
Like 6 (19%)
OK 2 (6%)
Don't Like 0 (0%)
No answer 1 (3%)

* Number of movies selected by each participant
Participants who selected 15 albums and 15 songs: 7 (23%)
Participants who selected 15 albums: 12 (39%)
Participants who selected between 11 and 14 albums: 4 (13%)
Participants who selected 10 or fewer albums: 13 (42%)
Participants who selected additional songs (valid entries only): 19 (61%)