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Kalyanji Virji Shah | |
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Born | (1928-06-30)30 June 1928 Kundrodi, Cutch State, British India |
Died | 24 August 2000(2000-08-24) (aged 72) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | music director, orchestrator, conductor |
Years active | 1954–2000 |
Labels | Saregama HMV Universal Music |
Formerly of | Kalyanji-Anandji |
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
Main article: Kalyanji–AnandjiSolo 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
- Awards
- "Viju Shah On Kalyanjibhai". Screen. 27 August 2004.
- "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- Carlo Nardi (July 2011). "The Cultural Economy of Sound: Reinventing Technology in Indian Popular Cinema". Journal on the Art of Record Production, Issue 5 Archived 15 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, ISSN 1754-9892.
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