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Interaction Kalyanji–Anandji are an Indian composer duo from Gujarat: Kalyanji Virji Kalyanji-Anandji
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(born 2 March 1933). The duo are known for their work on Hindi film
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soundtracks, with many evergreen songs being composed by them.
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Contact page Some of their best-known works are Don, Bairaag, Saraswatichandra,
Qurbani, Muqaddar Ka Sikandar, Laawaris (film), Tridev, Safar, etc. They
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won the 1975 Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Kora Kagaz.[1]
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Kalyanji (left) - Anandji (right)
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1 Career
Special pages Genres Film score
2 Trivia
Permanent link Occupation(s) Composer, music director,
Page information 3 Collaboration with singers
orchestrator, conductor
Wikidata item 4 Awards
Years active 1956–1994
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6 Songs and films
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Career [edit]
Français Kalyanji and Anandji were children of a businessman who migrated from Kundrodi Village in Kutch to 'Bombay' (now
Mumbai) to start a grocery and provision store. The brothers began to learn music from a music teacher, who taught
them in lieu of paying his bills to their father. One of their great-grandparents was a folk musician of some eminence.
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They spent most of their formative years in the Mumbai locality of Girgaum amidst Marathi and Gujarati environs and
among some eminent musical talent that resided in the vicinity.
Kalyanji started his career as a musician, with a new electronic instrument called the clavioline. which was used for the
famous "Nagin Been," used in the film Nagin (1954) which had the music of Hemant Kumar. [2] Kalyanji then, with his
brother Anandji, started an orchestral group called Kalyanji Virji and Party which organised musical shows in Mumbai
and outside. This was the first attempt made for holding live musical shows in India.
Kalyanji Anandji's arrival in the Bombay film industry as music composers was a turning point. When big music
directors like S.D. Burman, Hemant Kumar, Madan Mohan, Naushad, Shankar Jaikishan and Ravi were ruling the Hindi
film music world – and it was a golden period of film music – it was very tough to make a place amongst them. They
still managed to attain success amongst the competition.
The Bharat Bhushan–Nirupa Roy hit Samrat Chandragupta (1959) was his first film as Kalyanji Virji Shah. Songs like
"Chahe Paas Ho" (Lata–Rafi) that are remembered to this day were what made the movie a commercial success. This
was followed by his composing music scores for more films like Post Box 999 before Anandji who was assisting him,
joined him officially to form the Kalyanji Anandji duo in Satta Bazar and Madari (1959). Chalia (1961) was their earliest
major hit. In 1965, two decisive scores, Himalay Ki God Mein and Jab Jab Phool Khile , established them as composers
to reckon with.[citation needed]
Both Kalyanji and Anandji worked as music composers for over 250 films, 17 of which were golden jubilees and 39
silver. They organised many charitable concerts for NGOs and several charitable institutions in India and abroad with
some of the biggest names in Bollywood, like Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Rekha and
Sridevi.
Manhar Udhas, Kumar Sanu, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Sapna Mukherjee, Udit Narayan,
Sunidhi Chauhan, now very popular names, were nurtured as singers and got their first breaks from Kalyanji Anandji.
Laxmikant Pyarelal worked as music assistants to Kalyanji Anandji before composing Music independently for Hindi
films. They helped introduce or gave career defining breaks to lyricists like Qamar Jalalabadi, Anand Bakshi, Gulshan
Bawra, Anjaan, Verma Malik and M G Hashmat.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, their work was introduced to a young Western audience by three albums. Bombay
the Hard Way: Guns, Cars and Sitars was a mix album put together by US DJ Dan The Automator; Bollywood Funk
was an Outcaste compilation album put together by Sutrasonic DJs Harv and Sunni; while The Beginners Guide To
Bollywood was compiled by John Lewis from Time Out magazine. All three of these records concentrated on Kalyanji
Anandji tracks from 1970s films that featured funk breakbeats, wah-wah guitars and Motown-style orchestrations. In
2005, The Black Eyed Peas's "Don't Phunk with My Heart" used music pieces from two of their songs: "Ae Naujawan"
from the 1972 film Apradh[3] and "Yeh Mera Dil" from the 1978 film Don, which won the American hip-hop group a
Grammy Award.[4]
The composers composed some popular songs rendered by Kishore Kumar such as "Jeevan se bhari teri aankhe",
"Zindagi ka safar hai ye kaisa Safar", "Pal Pal dilke paas", "Neele Neele Ambar Par". Their composition called "Pal
bharke liye" was used in an episode of The Simpsons. Remixed version of the song "Apni Toh Jaise Taise," originally
from the 1981 film Laawaris was used in 2010 Bollywood film Housefull. The Calcutta High Court restrained producer
Sajid Nadiadwala from the cinematic use of the song.[5]
They used playback of Kishore Kumar for Dilip Kumar in "Bairaag " and for Shammi Kapur in "Vidhata ".
Trivia [edit]
1. "Neele Neele Ambar Par", sung by Kishore Kumar was a copy of the original song "Ilaya Nila" song composed
by Ilaiyaraaja[6]
Mohd Rafi
The duo composed many songs for Mohd Rafi. At their initial stage as music director, Mohd Rafi was their first choice of
singer. They made numerous popular song with him. Film Jab Jab Phool Khile rise them to fame and there was no
looking back after that. All songs of Jab Jab Phool Khile was huge hit. Beside Jab Jab Phool Khile, there many popular
song with Mohd Rafi from film like Qurbani (Kya Dekhte Ho), Bluff Master (Govinda Ala Re Ala), Raaz ( Akele Hain
Chehle Aao), Sacha Jhutha (Yuhi Tum Mujhse Baat Karti Hoo), Maryada (Tum Bhi Aja Ke), Haat Ki Safai (Vadaa Karle
Sajna), Gopi (Sukh Ki Hai Saab Sathie), Qatilon Ka Qatil ( Yeh To Allah Ko Khabar & Oh Mere Chorni), Geet (Aja Tujh
Ko Pukare Mere Geet) & Bairaag (Sare Shaher Mein App Sa) to named a few of the popular song. In film Muqaddar Ka
Sikandar where most song was playbacked by Kishore Kumar, they used Mohd Rafi to sing Kishore Kumar Rote Hua
Ate Saab some lines on the sad version of the song. The collaboration of Kalyanji & Anandji with Mohd Rafi created
everlasting songs in a very unique style.
Lata Mangeshkar
The duo composed 326 songs for Lata Mangeshkar in their career-24 under the name Kalyanji Veerji Shah and 302
under the name Kalyanji–Anandji-, the 4th highest number songs composed by any composer for Lataji's career after
Laxmikant-Pyarelal (712),Shankar-Jaikishan (453)and Rahul Dev Burman (331).Their association with the singer goes
back to 1954, when Kalyanji played the famous 'been' tune in Lata Mangeshkar's numbers like 'Man Dole Mera Tan
Dole' in the movie Nagin (1954). Lata's influence on their music in the initial years can be gauged from the fact that in
their first musical score Samrat Chandragupt (1958),Lataji was the only female playback singer, having sung 8 out of 8
numbers in the movie.However,since 1979 they started using Lata mangeshkar's voice very sparingly, even though
they kept on offering songs to other senior singers like Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar. Since 1980s Lata's voice
could only be heard in their scores like Bombay 405 Miles (1980), Katilon Ke Kaatil (1981),Khoon Ka Rishtaa
(1981),Log Kya Kahenge (1982), Raaj Mahal (1982),Vidhaata(1982),Yudh (1985),Pighalta Aasman (1985),Mangal
Dada (1986),Kalyug Aur Ramayan (1987),Desh Drohi (1988),Galiyon Ka Baadshah (1989) and Ulfat Ki Nayee Manzilen
(1994). Among these,Kalyug Aur Ramayan and Ulfat Ki Nayee Manzilen had been in the making since long, especially
the second one which was in the making since 1966, its music having been released in 1968 itself.
The superhit song include "Jiska Mujhe Tha Intezaar" from Don (1978), "Kabhi Raat Din Hum Door The" from
Aamne Saamne (1967), "Yeh Saman" from Jab Jab Phool Khile (1965), "Humare Siva Tumhare Aur Kitne
deewane" from Apradh (1978]], "Main Pyaasa Tum saawan' from Faraar (1975) etc.
Asha Bhosle
The duo composed 297 songs for Asha, the same number they composed for Lata, indicating that they emphasized
Asha and Lata almost equally. Their superhit songs with Asha is led by all time hit "Yeh Mera Dil" from Don (1978). It
earned Asha's 7th and last Filmfare Award as best singer. It was copied by world's leading band Black Eyed Peas in
1990 and their song earned Grammy Award. BEP's song included another K-A Bhosle number, "Aye Naujawan". Their
other hits with Asha includes "Kya Dekhte Ho" from Qurbani (1978) Aaiye aapka tha hamein intzar (Mahal-1969), Husn
ke laakhon rang (Johny mera naam-1970) "O Saathi Re" from Muqaddar Ka Siqandar (1978)
Kishore Kumar
The duo composed 270 songs for Legendary singer Kishore Kumar. Their superhit songs with Kishore Kumar included
all time hit "Zindagi ka safar" from Safar (1970), "O Saathi Re" from Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978), "mera jeevan kora
kagaz" from Kora Kagaz (1974), Jeevan se bhari teri aankhe " from Safar (1970), "pal pal dil ke paas" from Blackmail
(1974), "neele neele ambar par " from Kalakaar (1985), "samzauta gamon se kar lo" from Samjhauta (1973), "apne
jeevan ki ulzan ko" from Ulzan (1975).
Manna Dey
The duo composed the great number "kasme vaade pyar wafa ke " in Manna Dey's voice in "Upkar" ( 1968) and the
chart buster Kawwali "yyari hai imman Mera" from Zanzeer ( 1973)
Mukesh
The duo composed many heart touching melodies in the voice of Mukesh like " chandsi mehboba ho meri aia maine
socha tha ha tum bilkul wais ho jaisa maine socha tha ", " hum chodel hai mehfil ko yaad aa ye kisi ko mat rona ", "koi
jab tumhara hriday tod de " , " kya khoob lagthi ho , badi sundar dikhthi ho ",
Mahendra Kapoor
They also composed many memorable song for Mahendra Kaapoor , " Mere desh ki dharti sona ugle ugle heere moti "
in Upkaar, and the unique song " ik tara bole to tum kya kahe" " Twinkle Twinkle litle star" in Purab Aur Pacham and "O
shanker mere" from Bairaag. Mahendra Kapoor has been in the preferred playback singer of Kalyanji Anandji giving
numerous hit songs.
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Discography [edit]
Their songs repeatedly entered the top popularity ratings of Binaca Geetmala and topped the list many times. Some of
their notable compositions, by song title, are as follows:
Associations [edit]
Prakash Mehra
Manoj Kumar
Upkar
Purab Aur Paschim
Feroz Khan
Apradh
Dharmatma
Qurbani
Janbaaz
Manmohan Desai
Chhaliya
Bluff Master
Sachcha Jhutha
Sultan Ahmed
Heera
Ganga Ki Saugandh
Daata
Rajiv Rai
Yudh
Tridev
Gulshan Rai
Vidhaata
Johny Mera Naam
Subhash Ghai
Kalicharan
Vidhaata
References [edit]
1. ^ They also won National Award for best music for the film Saraswati chandra. Awards
2. ^ Carlo Nardi (July 2011). "The Cultural Economy of Sound: Reinventing Technology in Indian Popular Cinema". Journal
on the Art of Record Production, Issue 5 , ISSN 1754-9892 .
3. ^ ae naujawan hai sub kuchh yahan – Apradh 1972 on YouTube
4. ^ Robin Denselow (2 May 2008). "Kalyanji Anandji, The Bollywood Brothers" . The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2009.
5. ^ Lalwani, Vickey (1 May 2010). "Court(ing) trouble for Housefull" . Indaitimes. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
6. ^ "The Top 10 songs of S P Balasubrahmanyam" . Rediff. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
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