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Kalyanji Virji Shah (30 June 1928 – 24 August 2000) was the Kalyanji of the Kalyanji-Anandji duo. He and his brother Anandji Virji Shah have been famous Indian film musicians, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, for Kora Kagaz. He is a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Shri (1992), India's fourth-highest civilian honour.
Birth and early life
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 (1954).
Career
= Solo Filmography
=Samrat Chandragupt (1958)
Post Box No.999 (1958)
Bedard Zamana Kya Jaane (1959)
Oh Tera Kya Kehna (1959)
Family
Kalyanji's son, Viju Shah, is also a music director based in India.
References
External links
Kalyanji Virji Shah at IMDb
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- Kalyanji Virji Shah
- Kalyanji–Anandji
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- Kalyanji–Anandji discography
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- Shah Rukh Khan
- Nagin (1954 film)
- Kutchi people
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