Anandji Virji Shah
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Birth name | Anandji Virji Shah |
Also known as | Anandji |
Born | (1933-03-02) 2 March 1933 (age 91) Kundrodi, Kutch, Gujarat |
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | music director, orchestrator, conductor |
Years active | 1954–present |
Labels | Saregama HMV Universal Music |
Anandji Virji Shah (born 2 March 1933) is an Indian music director. Together with his brother he formed the Kalyanji-Anandji duo, and won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, for Kora Kagaz. In 1992, Anandji Shah received the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour.
Life
Anandji was born to Virji Shah on 2nd March 1933. Their father was a Kutchi businessman who had migrated from Kutch to Bombay to start a kirana (provision store). His younger brother and sister-in-law are the husband-and-wife duo Babla & Kanchan. The two brothers began to learn music from a music teacher. One of their four grandparents was a folk musician of some eminence. They spent most of their formative years in the hamlet of Girgaum (a district in Bombay) in the Marathi and Gujarati areas.
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