Background Score - 16

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Ennai Thaalaata Varuvaala

Illayaraja’s romantic melodies always have a special quality of emoting both happiness and sadness from within itself. You can use it for either mood and it would aptly fit in for either! The tune of ‘Ennai Thalaatta Varuvaala’ is as romantic as it can get when used for romantic scenes, and as painful as it can sound, when used to underscore the pain of the lovers in separation. Listen to the compilation of all variations of this tune used as background score throughout the movie



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Answer for Background Score - 15

This piece is from Charulatha (Bengali). It is the main charulatha theme. Satyajit Ray both as a director and composer has played a very important role in raising the bars for background score in Indian films. Satyajit Ray is the composer for 'Charulatha'. I simply love this piece. I know it isn't fair to ask everyone to guess a score from a bengali movie but my intention was just to make people listen to this beautiful piece.

Screen Nominations for Best Background Score

Yet another instance to understand how bad the recognition for background score composers is in Indian Cinema. Vishal-Shekhar is nominated for Best background score, though Sandeep Chowtha is the actual background score composer of Om Shanthi Om. Also, Daniel B.George's background score for Jhonny Gaddar deserves a nomination.