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Shah’s emergence as a composer happened at a time when traditional orchestral arrangement was disappearing and making way for programmed music. He saw first-hand the slow and palpable shift from acoustics to electronics in Hindi film music.
Before he became a composer, Viju Shah worked as an arranger for his father and uncle Kalyanji-Anandji. During that time, he met Bollywood director Rajiv Rai. Producer Gulshan Rai, the father of Rajiv Rai, approached Kalyanji-Anandji to write the soundtrack for Tridev.
Apart from being a prolific composer, Viju Shah has also been known to be one of the most imaginative arrangers or music producers in the history of Hindi cinema. On his birthday, the maverick composer talks about ten of his most special melodies and the interesting stories behind them.
Anish Mohanty. While Viju Shah made his debut as a music composer in Hindi films in the early ‘90s, he started playing for his father Kalyanji Virji Shah and uncle Anandji Virji Shah (popularly known as the duo Kalyanji-Anandji) right from the time he was in high school in the ‘70s.
Viju Shah is an Indian music composer. He is the son of the veteran music director Kalyanji Virji Shah of the composer duo Kalyanji Anandji. He is widely regarded as the Hans Zimmer of Bollywood due to his exceptional talent for background music and instrumental electronic soundtracks.
Jul 5, 2022 · Viju was fully credited as song composer only with Muqaddar Ka Badshah in 1990. Since then, he has done less than 30 films, a TV serial, a Gujarati film and several private projects, besides the ...
Nov 18, 2015 · Born in June 1959, to Virji Kalyanji Shah, one half of the famous Kalyanji-Anandji music duo, Viju Shah started as a music arranger for Rajiv Rai’s multi-starrer Tridev...
