kolkata the whole of monday the city was talking about just one thing the unbelievable success of the film slumdog millionaire at the oscars and after having cheered their hearts out many flocked to bookstores and music shops to pick up a copy of the book written by vikas swarup or to buy an audio cd for a r rahmans oscar winning tracksthe music cds were doing roaring business even before the oscars they have remained the number one selling item for over a month we had ordered fresh stocks anticipating it would do well at the oscars we were right said chetan arora head of music world on park street the store was thronged by the young and old throughout the day looking for rahmans score as jai ho played in the background interspersed by special announcements to promote sales there were slumdog posters all over the place most music stores expect sales of audio cds to go up even further from tuesday onwards many got to know about the success of the film later in the day and did not find time to visit stores tuesdays newspapers will do the rest of the magic said kohinoor chakraborty zonal category manager of planet m the store has increased its orders initially it was the young crowd that was buying the cds but after the oscars even the elderly have started trooping in he addedbookstores are also raking in the bounty two years back when the book was first released it was called qa and had a slow start but word of mouth publicity helped and sales picked up sales jumped when slumdog won the golden globe the original cover of the book was changed after the film started getting awards and nominations and a scene from the film replaced it that attracted attention and made it easy for people to pick it up said prem prakash of modern bookstoreit has been the fastest moving book in our store for quite sometime now we are expecting more sales after the oscar success said mou mukherjee of oxford bookstoretarun shaw who has been in the business for the past two decades armed himself with 15 books for the day but they were lapped up within hours