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Asian Network Presents: Music Director Anandji Shah (R)

Music Director Anandji Shah (R)

02/10/2016

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Bollywood composer Anandji Shah shares his career highlights.

Bollywood composer Anandji Shah shares his musical highlights. In a career stretching back to the 1960s, Shah and his late brother Kalyanji scored over 250 Hindi films.

In this musical treat, Bollywood music composer Anandji Shah chooses his favourite songs from his career which dates back to the 1960s.

Together with his late brother Kalyanji Shah, the duo have composed blockbuster soundtracks for over 250 Hindi films, including 'Upkar' 'Jab Jab Phool Khile', 'Qurbani', 'Don' and 'Tridev'.

The pair also discovered new talent like Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam and Udit Narayan who went onto become some of the most successful singers in Bollywood.

In 2005, The Black Eyed Peas used two of Kalyanji-Anandji's music pieces in the song 'Don't Phunk With My Heart' which won them a Grammy Award.

In this hour special, recorded exclusively for BBC Asian Network, Anandji picks his favourite compositions, shares memories of the recordings and talks about the creation of gems which have become some of the biggest songs in the history of Hindi cinema.

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