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Kalyanji Anandji - Dharmatma Theme Music
Sitting here with a belly full of vindaloo, and the news that our man Arjun will be coming up for a special visit from NYC, what better time than now to drop this theme music from the 1975 Hindi film Dharmatma. The soundtrack was composed by Kalyanji Anandji, whose name comes from first names of the two Gujarati brothers that made up the duo, Kalyanji Virji Shah and Anandji Virji Shah. These dudes would essentially compete in the same musical arena, as well as partake in the odd dust-up (blow), as house favourite(s) Shankar Jaikishan. As young men the two brothers would learn music from a teacher who could not afford to pay their fathers bills - by which I mean, free lessons… which is pretty sweet. In the end that would prove to be a fair trade; as seemed to be the way they rolled in the Bollywood scene back in the day, Kalyanji Anandji would work as musicians on more than 400 films - which is about as full as my stomach is right now on a scale of 1 to 100. Nighty night.
