Remembering Kalyanji of Kalyanji-Anandji fame on his birthday
Remembering Kalyanji of Kalyanji-Anandji fame on his birthday
Kalyanji and his brother Anandji have been famous Indian film musicians, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, for Kora Kagaz.
He is also the proud recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Shri (1992) India’s fourth-highest civilian honour.
Kalyanji was born to Virji Shah, a Kutchi businessman in Kundrodi, Kutch, Gujarat, who migrated from Kutch to Mumbai to start a Kirana (provision store). His younger brother and his wife are the husband and wife duo Babla & Kanchan.
He and his brothers began to learn music from a music teacher, who actually knew no music but taught them in lieu of paying his bills to their father. One of their four grand parents was a folk musician of some eminence. They spent most of their formative years in the hamlet of Girgaum (a district in Mumbai) amidst Marathi and Gujarati environs — some eminent musical talent resided in the vicinity.Kalyanji’s breakthrough was with the theme entitled Been music from the film Nagin.
His solo music has been for Samrat Chandragupt
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Kalyanji’s son, Viju Shah, is also a music director based in India.
The duo have given mindblowing music to filmmakers Prakash Mehra and many others. In fact with Prakash Mehra they had formed a team – Prakash Mehra-Kishore Kumar-Anjaan-Kalanji-Anandji. They had given hit music for Prakash Mehra’s films such as Zanjeer, Muqaddar Ka Sikander, Laawaris Jaadugar etc etc.
Kalyanji’s son Viju Shah has taken over.
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