Kalyanji  Anandji are two brothers  and are originally  from town called Kunrodi  in Kutch, Gujarat district in India. They are sons of Virji Premji a business man who migrated from Kutch to Maharashtra in Bombay 80 years ago.. They had their first Music Room at place called Mangal Wadi in Girgaon, Mumbai and once they got married they shifted to pedder road near Mahalami temple. They also made their new music hall nearby their resident at  Vimla Mahal building, opposite Jas Lock hospital on pedder Road, Mumbai. All their settings were heals at night by the producers, actors and lyric writers would decide on the script of the movies, songs and the outdoor shooting locations at these music hall.

They started their small General provisional shop with the father in Mangal Wadi, in Girgaon 1950’s. Kalyanji  the elder brother then  started his own  career as   a musician and played Clavioline  an imported instrument in film called Nagin in 1954  and the song   Man Dole  and  Nagin  instrumental been tune gave him the break in the film industry. During this period they performed few stage shows also with their small band orchestra.

Kalyanji’s first film break was  Samrat Chandra Gupt in 1959. After that next release was Post Box. NO. 999 when Anandji  Shah the younger brother joined him in music business as full time member and the duos new  name was created in the Film Industry as   as Kalyanji  Anandji- Music Director. After that they never looked back for work in this field. The total film they cored music for till now is 310 movies and still some more unfinished movies to be released yet.

Kalyanji  Anandji duo has scored  so many melodious music for the Indian film Industry from 1959 till this day. There was a time when once upon a time seven movies in Mumbai were released at the same time in all major cinema hall and in all the movies the music was scored by these Music Maestro  Kalyanji    Anandji.

K&A started performing their live in concert stage shows with their orchestra named  Kalyanji  Anandj Nights.    They have also performed so many charitable free shows for the Police & Army force for the good causes to raise funds for so many organisations in need.

Kalyanji  Anqandji  has given so many memorable musical songs & background music to   so many producers in Indian Film Industry from 1954 till now. Kalyanji Anandji  were the first music director to be awarded by the biggest institute award called Cini Music Industry.

Later on again from the musical family, their    younger brother also joined the team named Babla Shah, the King of Rhythm and Disco Dandia creator in India. He is the best rhythm player in film industry.   The musician’s orchestra team became much stronger and powerful. Again in 1960’s Laxmikant  Payarelal also joined them as an assistant music director to create wonderful melodious songs. Later on LP got separated from K& A and started their own music composing business.

Kalyanji   Anandji Duo has scored music for almost 310 movies so far and some of them are still not released yet by the producers due to some reasons. Many of them were sliver, Golden & Platinum disc jubilees.  For recording  so many  Patriotic lyric’s  songs the government of India has also  awarded them with the  Padmashree  award to both these brothers for creating such a  good memorable  meaningful  patriotic songs  in Upkar film like a  song  Mere Desh ki Dharti & Bharat ka rahne  wala hu . So far 300 trophies and many awards from different organisation has been awarded to these two brothers for creating such a good memorable songs

Kalyanji  Anandji Duo    are the first music directors to start the trend of  live in concert shows business  trend with  many play back singers & with  superstar actor and actress of  our India film industry. Live shows Concerts performing abroad trend was stated by these brothers many years ago. The biggest stadium Live shows they have performed with 50 musicians orchestra was with Super the star like Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor and Rekha with  other supporting  actors  performing live concert. Open Air stadium Crowd of 60,000 attended in UK & USA. Today this show business has been taken over by so many TV.  Media Channel & different promotion & sponsorship companies as Award functions shows. These days you see Anandji in Sony Indian IDOL Shows.

Kalyanji  Anandji  has also trained  so many new generation of talented play back singers into this field so that the  future generation should  continue singing in Indian film industry. They have created their own singing training school for young children. Academy names are Little Stars and Little wonders. These Live talented show performances also did well in India and abroad.  And the shows like Sare  Re Ga Ma serial  started with presenter  Sonu Nigam by Gajender Sing for the TV. Audience with support of these two brothers. .

Today their hard work and creation of soulful melodies speaks for itself. No other music directors have lasted for so long. Today most of their old number songs are remixed and copied by so many new upcoming producers and artist abroad for whom they get very little royalties from the IPRS body. One thing is fact that these two brothers did not work for the money in this industry. They always believed in giving good songs and background music to all their producers. They cared for their goodwill and name.

Today elder brother Padmashree Kalyanjibhai is no more in this world, but his younger brother Anandji shah at the age of 88 years also   still continues to promote the new talents in the industry. K&A stopped giving music and now their sons have taken over the business. Music Director Viju Kalyanj shah & Music Director & Show promoter Deepak Anandji Shah has taken over the business.

THE NAME KALYANJI ANANDJI FAME IS FOREVER & UNFORGATABLE IN INDIAN FILM MUSIC INDUSTRY FOR LAST 60 YEARS

Kalyanji Anandji – The Vivacious Virtuoso

Kya khoob lagti ho, Bdi sundr dikhti ho.
Kya khoob lagti ho, Bdi sundr dikhti ho.
Ferse kaho, kehte raho, accha lagta h,
Jeewan ka har sapna ab sachha lgta h.

These lines are a perfect fit to make your girl swoon. Behind innumerable songs like these are the dynamic duo Kalyanji Anandji. Kalyanji–Anandji are an Indian composer duo, Kalyanji Virji Shah and his brother Anandji Virji Shah. The duo are known for their work on Hindi film soundtracks, with many evergreen songs being composed by them. And this March 2, we are all set to celebrate Anandji’s 90th birth anniversary.

Born in 1933, to a Kutchi businessman, Anandji began to learn music from a music teacher. One of their four grandparents was a folk musician of some eminence.

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. Kalyanji then, with his brother Anandji, started an orchestral group called Kalyanji Virji and Party which organized musical shows in Mumbai and outside.

The Bharat Bhushan– Nirupa Roy hit Samrat Chandragupta (1959) was Kalyanji’s first film. Anandji assisted him till then. Anandji officially joined Kalyanji while he was composing music scores for Satta Bazaar and Madari (1959). Chhalia (1960) was their earliest major hit. In 1965, Himalay Ki God Mein and Jab Jab Phool Khile, established them as composers in the competitive Bollywood industry.

Both Kalyanji and Anandji worked as music composers for over 250 films, 17 of which were golden jubilees and 39 silver. They also collaborated with the legends of all time namely Mohammed Rafi, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Manna Dey, Mukesh and Mahendra Kapoor. Their song ‘Mera Jeevan Kora Kagaz’ in collaboration with Kishore Kumar from the film ‘Kora Kagaz’ (1974) topped the Binaca Geetmala annual list 1974. They also won their first Filmfare award for Best Music Director for ‘Kora Kagaz’.

Kalyanji Anandji has also been bestowed with the fourth highest civilian award Padma Shri in the year 1992 for their unparalleled contribution to the Indian music industry. 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.

yaari hai imaan mera yaar meri zindagi
Pyaar ho bandon se ye sabase badi hai bndagi
Saaz-e-dil chhedo jahaan men, pyaar ki gunje sada
Jin dilon men pyaar hai unape bahaaren hon fida
Pyaar leke nur aya, pyaar leke saadagi

You all must have sung this to your friends at least once in life. This qawalli in the voice of Manna Dey was a chartbuster by Kalyanji Anandji. Kalyanji Virji Shah left us 23 years ago on August 24, leaving behind a cherished legacy of musical gems that he composed along with his brother. Anandji is our living legend and we will always be indebted to him for his priceless contribution to the Indian music industry.

Kalyanji and Anandji were children of a businessman who migrated from Kutch to 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. They spent most of their formative years in the hamlet of Girgaum (a district in Mumbai) 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. Still they came and won the hearts and minds of Indian people.

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.

Kalyanji-Anandji's variety-studded music is complete with some of the topmost songs of all singers and genres. Both Kalyanji and Anandji worked as music composers for over 250 films, 17 of which were golden jubilees and 39 silver. The factor behind their success is hard work, apart from their talent. They were never self-centered or egoistic. The spiritually inclined brothers opened up a new horizon in Bollywood. They used to put society in front of them and, as a thankful gesture, organized 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.

They were tireless in discovering new talents and grooming them, as well. Manhar Udhas, Kumar Sanu, Alka Yagnik, Sadhna Sargam, Sapna Mukherjee, Udit Narayan, Sunidhi Chauhan, now very popular names, were nurtured as singers and got their first breaks from Kalyanji Anandji. Fellow composers Laxmikant Pyarelal, before becoming famous, worked as music assistants to Kalyanji Anandji.

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 them a Grammy Award.

On 24 August 2000, Kalyanji breathed his last. His era with Anandji will always be remembered for their great contributions. Kalyanji’s dream for training new and young talents and promoting them is carried on today by Anandji in the name of Little Stars.

The composers composed some outstanding songs rendered by the legend 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]