Calcutta, Jan 3 :     If books are here, can music be far behind? Soon after the launching of 'Landmark', a city bookshop worth its name, Calcutta is all set to get its first 'real' music store. After its roaring success in Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Cochin, RPG group's Music World Stores is ready to strike the right chord in Calcutta. For this, RPG group's Spencer Estate & Retail Limited have chosen the intersection of Park Street and Middleton Row - 18 G, Park Street, to be precise. M/S Fitch Design Consultants of London has been roped in to give the shop an 'international look'. The sprawling 5,000-sq-ft store will be fully air-conditioned and will be designed to provide the customer with all amenities available in leading music stores abroad. 'Calcutta's love for music will be better honoured with the Music World store, which will look very different from the present HMV showrooms,' says a spokesman of the RPG group. There will be no less than 50,000 cassettes and compact discs on display. 'To choose a cassette or CD, all you have to do is put on a pair of earphones, shut out the world, and plug into the music,' he adds. Beside the legends and the latest from USA and the UK, there will be a colossal 'made in India' collection as well. Indian classical music, both vocal and instrumental, Rabindrasangeet, Nazrulgeeti, folk songs, Bengali film and Adhunik numbers and, of course, the best of Bollywood, will all be there. There will also be an electronic display board to help music lovers keep in tune with national and international trends, complete with individual sales figures and popularity indices. The music should be ready to play by March, provided the Calcutta Municipal Corporation okays plans to remove hawkers and allow beautification of the pavement in front of the shop. 'I have already directed the conservancy department to clear the pavement of encroachers,' says municipal commissioner Asim Barman. According to the CMC's estimate, there are around 5,000 music shops all over Calcutta and cassettes and CDs worth more than Rs 1 crore are sold daily. Calcutta, after all, serves as the main wholesale marketing outlet for entire eastern India and Bangladesh. But Aniruddha Mukherjee, licence officer of CMC, puts things into perspective by stating that of the 5,000-odd shops, 98 per cent are small-time dealers, selling cassettes only. 'The total investment for the store will be to the tune of several crore of rupees,' reveals the RPG spokesman. 'We need to sell cassettes and CDs worth at least Rs 30 lakh a month to make the music store viable. But we do expect a monthly sales figure of Rs 40 lakh during the first six months.' So, amidst all the fever and the fret, will the sound of music soothe the city this summer?