Birth name Kalyanji Virji Shah Role Film Score Composer Siblings Anandji Virji Shah Name Kalyanji Shah Children Viju Shah | Years active 1954–2000 Parents Virji Shah Died August 24, 2000, India | |
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Albums Johar-Mehmood in Goa, Vardaan Similar People Anandji Virji Shah, Indeevar, Gulshan Kumar Mehta, Prakash Mehra, Anjaan | ||
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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).
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- Birth and early life
- References
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).
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).
Kalyanji's son, Viju Shah, is also a music director.