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{{Infobox musical artist<br />
| name = Kalyanji Virji Shah<br />
| image =<br />
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| background = non_performing_personnel <br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1928|6|30}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kundrodi]], [[Cutch State]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2000|8|24|1928|6|30|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]<br />
| instrument = <br />
| genre = [[Film score]]<br />
| occupation = [[music director]], [[orchestrator]], [[Conducting|conductor]]<br />
| years_active = 1954–2000<br />
| label = [[Saregama|His Master's Voice]]<br/>[[Saregama]]<br/>[[Universal Music]]<br />
| past_member_of = [[Kalyanji-Anandji]]<br />
| website = <br />
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'''Kalyanji Virji Shah''' (30 June 1928 &ndash; 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]]''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006285/awards Awards]</ref><ref name="ki">{{cite web|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=8946|title=Viju Shah On Kalyanjibhai|date=27 August 2004|publisher=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]}}{{dead link|date=November 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref> He is a recipient of the civilian honour of [[Padma Shri]] (1992),<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India |date=2015 |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 October 2015 }}</ref> India's fourth-highest civilian honour. <br />
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==Birth and early life==<br />
Kalyanji was born to Virji Shah, a [[Kutchi people|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]].<br />
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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 language|Marathi]] and [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]] environs — some eminent musical talent resided in the vicinity.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}<br />
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Kalyanji's breakthrough was with the theme entitled ''Been music'' from the film ''[[Nagin (1954 film)|Nagin]]'' (1954).<ref>[http://arpjournal.com/858/the-cultural-economy-of-sound-reinventing-technology-in-indian-popular-cinema/ Carlo Nardi (July 2011). "The Cultural Economy of Sound: Reinventing Technology in Indian Popular Cinema". ''Journal on the Art of Record Production'', Issue 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615074412/http://arpjournal.com/858/the-cultural-economy-of-sound-reinventing-technology-in-indian-popular-cinema/ |date=15 June 2013 }}, {{ISSN|1754-9892}}.</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
{{Main|Kalyanji–Anandji}}<br />
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===Solo Filmography===<br />
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* Samrat Chandragupt (1958)<br />
* Post Box No.999 (1958)<br />
* Bedard Zamana Kya Jaane (1959)<br />
* Oh Tera Kya Kehna (1959)<br />
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==Family==<br />
Kalyanji's son, [[Viju Shah]], is also a music director based in [[India]].{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{IMDb name|0006285}}<br />
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{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Art}}<br />
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[[Category:Filmfare Awards winners]]<br />
[[Category:People from Kutch district]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts]]<br />
[[Category:Hindi film score composers]]<br />
[[Category:Gujarati people]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian composers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male film score composers]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century male musicians]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian Jains]]<br />
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