

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. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, their work was introduced to a young Western audience by three albums. They helped introduce or gave career defining breaks to lyricists like Qamar Jalalabadi, Anand Bakshi, Gulshan Bawra, Anjaan, Verma Malik and M G Hashmat. Laxmikant Pyarelal worked as music assistants to Kalyanji Anandji before composing Music independently for Hindi films. 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. 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. īoth Kalyanji and Anandji worked as music composers for over 250 films, 17 of which were golden jubilees and 39 silver.

In 1965, two decisive scores, Himalay Ki God Mein and Jab Jab Phool Khile, established them as composers to reckon with. Chhalia (1960) was their earliest major hit. 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 Bazaar and Madari (1959).
HINDI NAGIN BEEN MUSIC MOVIE
Songs like "Chahe Paas Ho" (Lata–Rafi) that are remembered to this day were what made the movie a commercial success. The Bharat Bhushan– Nirupa Roy hit Samrat Chandragupta (1959) was his first film as Kalyanji Virji Shah. They still managed to attain success amongst the competition.

Nayyar 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. Burman, Hemant Kumar, Madan Mohan, Naushad, Shankar-Jaikishan and O. Kalyanji Anandji's arrival in the Bombay film industry as music composers was a turning point. This was the first attempt made for holding live musical shows in India.

Kalyanji then, with his brother Anandji, started an orchestral group called Kalyanji Virji and Party which organised musical shows in Mumbai and outside. which was used for the famous "Nagin Been," used in the film Nagin (1954) which had the music of Hemant Kumar. Kalyanji started his career as a musician, with a new electronic instrument called the clavioline. 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. One of their great-grandparents was a folk musician of some eminence. The brothers began to learn music from a music teacher, who taught them in lieu of paying his bills to their father. Their younger brother and his wife are the husband and wife duo Babla & Kanchan. Kalyanji and Anandji were children of a Kutchi businessman who migrated from Kundrodi village in Kutch to 'Bombay' (now Mumbai) to start a grocery and provision store.
