Kalyanji Virji Shah
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Kalyanji Virji Shah | |
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| Born | (1928-06-30)30 June 1928 Kalyanji-Anandji |
Kalyanji Virji Shah (30 June 1928 – 24 August 2000) was the Kalyanji of the
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
Kalyanji's breakthrough was with the theme entitled Been music from the film Nagin (1954).[4]
Filmography
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.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Awards
- ^ "Viju Shah On Kalyanjibhai". Screen. 27 August 2004. [dead link]
- ^ "Padma Awards" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 October 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
- ISSN 1754-9892.
External links
- Kalyanji Virji Shah at IMDb
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