Viju Shah Wiki, Family, Career, Awards & More – FilmyVoice

Viju Shah is an Indian music composer. He’s the son of the well-known veteran music director Kalyanji Virji Shah of the composer duo Kalyanji Anandji. He’s extensively considered the Hans Zimmer of Bollywood because of his distinctive expertise for background music and instrumental digital soundtracks.

Wiki/Biography

Vijay Kalyanji Shah was born on Friday, 5 June 1959 (64 Years outdated; as of 2023). He’s a Gemini. He composed the music for movies like Gupt (1997), for which he was nominated for a Filmfare Award for Greatest Music Director, and Tridev (1989), Vishwatama (1992), Mohra (1994), and Tere Mere Sapne (1996). Viju Shah is a music director who used synthesizers and digital music approach forward of his time. Viju Shah normally makes use of a keyboard to compose. Viju Shah performs quite a few synthesizers concurrently whereas acting at numerous Garba/Dandia nights.

Household

Mother and father & Siblings

Viju is the son of Veteran Music composer Kalyanji Virji Shah. He was raised with 4 brothers Ramesh, Dinesh, Chandrakant and, Rajesh.

Viju Shah (standing on proper) with the duo Kalyanji-Anandji and Rajiv Rai

Spouse & Youngsters

Viju Shah is married to Sunanda Shah.

Profession

Movie

90s

Tridev (1989), an Indian motion thriller directed by Rajiv Rai, was Viju Shah’s official movie debut.
For the 1992 Indian thriller movie Vishwatma, which was launched in Hindi, he collaborated as soon as extra with Rajiv Rai. The musical comedy Andaz Apna Apna (1994) and the horror movie Junoon (1992) included Viju Shah’s music. In Mohra (1994), Rajiv Rai and Viju Shah labored collectively. The songs “Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast” and “Tip Tip Barsa Pani” are among the many most well-known within the film. The music album went on to promote greater than 8 million copies, surpassing Hum Aapke Hain Koun to grow to be the second-highest-selling Bollywood soundtrack album of the 12 months. Viju Shah went on to compose Ravan Raaj: A True Story and Tere Mere Sapne within the years following the recognition of Mohra. The fifth time he labored with Rajiv Rai was on the 1997 movie Gupt. He composed songs for nearly 35 movies throughout the course of his over 30-year profession within the music business.

Viju Shah(taking part in Harmonium) together with Kishore Kumar, music director Babla and Lyricist Indeevar whereas composing the tune “Kabhi hoti nahi jiski haar”.

2000s

With the comedy Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998) starring David Dhawan, Viju Shah introduced within the new millennium.

Newest work

The background music for the 2021 Netflix film Class of ’83 was written by Viju Shah.

Controversies

Viju Shah and A R Rahman Controversy

Viju Shah has been blamed fairly a number of occasions for plagiarism in his work, one allegation that caught the attraction of many individuals was made by A R Rahman stating that Viju was utilizing his work from the south motion pictures in his songs. Though these allegations have been by no means proved to be both proper or unsuitable, that they had a big impact on Viju Shah’s Profession as a music composer.

Awards

• In 1998 Viju Shah gained the Greatest Background Rating for the Bollywood film Gupt: The Hidden Fact at Filmfare Awards.
  

  Viju Shah along with his Filmfare award

Information/Trivia

• In a previous interview, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan mentioned Bollywood composers stealing his tunes. The grasp of Pakistani qawwali claimed that Anu Malik and Viju Shah finest copied him.

• Lately his tune Tip Tip Barsa Pani was recreated and when requested about it in an interview he stated,
  

  From no matter little I’ve heard of the tune, I don’t get a sense that it’s recreated or sounding very completely different. It’s nearly just like mine and so they have additionally used the unique singers Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik. So it sounds much more near the unique. A recreation is if you preserve the unique composition intact however change a little bit of the association. However I’m blissful that even after 27 years, persons are having fun with the tune and giving it love. “

• Viju Shah began in music on the age of 4-5 by practising on the harmonium.
  

  Viju Shah’s childhood image taking part in the Harmonium together with Legendary singer Mukesh and Legendary Composer Kalyanji and his father Virji Shah

• When requested in regards to the cause why he selected to start out a profession in music he stated,
  

  Since my father Kalyanji Virji Shah of the composer duo Kalyanji Anandji was a famend musician of that period he wished one in all his youngsters to be pursue music. My studying in music was very mechanical till electronics got here in Seventies. Finally, I felt that I ought to begin with this ”

  

  Viju Shah ( in pink shirt on proper) with different singers and composers of Bollywood at Anandji’s ninetieth birthday.

• In 1995, Viju Shah was a choose on the semi-finals episode of the favored actuality present Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Schedule 2, together with Jagjit Kaur, Javed Akhtar, and Usha Khanna.

• Throughout the starting of his profession, he launched a solo album named ‘Why not Synthesizers?’.