Kalyanji Virji Shah
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.
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Kalyanji Virji Shah
- Name
- Kalyanji Virji Shah
- Born
- 30 June 1928
- Birthplace
- Kundrodi, Cutch State, British India
- Died
- 24 August 2000
- Place of death
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Occupation
- music director, orchestrator, conductor
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Honours
- Filmfare Awards · Padma Shri in arts
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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.
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Kalyanji Virji Shah (1928–2000) was a composer, a national of the British Raj and the Dominion of India. The composer was a member of Kalyanji–Anandji. Honours include Filmfare Awards and Padma Shri in arts.
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• Name — Kalyanji Virji Shah • Born — 30 June 1928 • Birthplace — Kundrodi, Cutch State, British India • Died — 24 August 2000 • Place of death — Mumbai, Maharashtra, India • Genre — Film score • Occupation — music director, orchestrator, conductor • Years Active — 1954–2000 • Label — His Master's Voice Saregama Universal Music • Past Member Of — Kalyanji-Anandji
Birth and early life
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).
Solo Filmography
Solo Filmography
• Samrat Chandragupt (1958) • Post Box No.999 (1958) • Bedard Zamana Kya Jaane (1959) • Oh Tera Kya Kehna (1959)
Family
Family
Kalyanji's son, Viju Shah, is also a music director based in India.
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