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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Anandji
| name         = Anandji
| image = Anandji1.jpg
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| birth_name   = Anandji Virji Shah
| birth_name = Anandji Virji Shah
| alias       = Anandji
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| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1933|3|2}}
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1933|3|2}}
| birth_place = [[Kundrodi]], [[Kutch district|Kutch]], [[Gujarat]]
| birth_place = [[Kundrodi]], [[Kutch district|Kutch]], [[Gujarat]]
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| genre       = [[Film score]]
| genre = [[Film score]]
| occupation   = [[music director]], [[orchestrator]], [[Conducting|conductor]]
| occupation = [[music director]], [[orchestrator]], [[Conducting|conductor]]
| years_active = 1954–present
| years_active = 1954–present
| label = [[Saregama|Saregama HMV]]<br/>[[Universal Music]]
| label       = [[Saregama|Saregama HMV]]<br/>[[Universal Music]]
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Background information
Birth nameAnandji Virji Shah
Also known asAnandji
Born (1933-03-02) 2 March 1933 (age 93)
Kundrodi, Kutch, Gujarat
GenresFilm score
Occupation(s)music director, orchestrator, conductor
Years active1954–present
LabelsSaregama 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. He is a recipient of the civilian honour of Padma Shri (1992).

Life[edit | edit source]

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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