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'Once there was this major Kalyanji -Anandji Night lined up with Kishore Kumar in Mumbai, and he suddenly took ill. Lata Mangeshkar was a regular at Kalyanji's place for Kutchi home-cooked food, while Asha Bhosle would frequently invite them over. The rapport that Kalyanji and Anandji struck with every singer was as much personal as professional.

Hemant Kumar helped hone their talents as well, and Anandji is happy that the few songs that Hemantda did sing for them, like O neend na mujhko aaye ( Post Box 999) and Tumhein yaad hoga ( Satta Bazaar), were hits. 'It was from Hemant Kumar's Nagin that Kalyanji achieved fame by playing the been or snakecharmer's instrument on the clavioline.' The duo always regretted not being able to work extensively with the man and mentor they adored - Hemant Kumar - because changed trends made his unique voice unfashionable. He was also our first choice for fresh faces and small artistes, for his presence guaranteed a hit.' We always tried to compose songs with syllables that heightened the appeal of his nasal voice, like Chandan sa badan ( Saraswatichandra) and Main to ek khwab hoon ( Himalay Ki God Mein). Beginning with Naina hai jadoo bhare ( Bedard Zamana Kya Jaane), he sang a virtual hit parade of solos and duets for us, besides some evergreen Gujarati numbers and a timeless Jain bhajan. Incidentally, he has sung 91 songs for us, which is more than for anyone else. But what he put into his songs was his soul, and that explained the fact that over 900 of his 990 recorded songs were hits. 'His bass voice was his asset and led to the misconception that his range was narrow. My brother is not here today to express his views, but on his second death anniversary, it is perhaps befitting that I, speaking on behalf of both of us, should remember those people who contributed to our music probably a little more than anyone else did.'ДЄnandji recalls the late Mukesh as the man they were close to as a real artiste, a man who worshipped Saraswati rather than wealth. Says Anandji, 'We always knew that behind our success were so many factors apart from our talent and hard work. Today, Padmashris Kalyanji and Anandji are names that are respected. We knew that no one could take away even an iota of what was in our naseeb, neither could we do it to anyone else.' Our father - an uneducated but very wise man - had inculcated some values in us. Mehra called us insane for saying that, adding that others tried every trick in the book to prevent the entry of a rival. Recalls Anandji placidly, 'When Prakash Mehra hit big time after Zanjeer, Haath Ki Safai, Hera Pheri and Muqaddar Ka Sikander in a row, we suggested that he should begin to do every second film with another music composer as that would lend freshness to his movies. K-A also watched so many fickle filmmakers - for whom they had done excellent work and helped kick-start their careers - succumb to market pressures and manipulations and shift loyalties away from them, and smiled when singers they had groomed belittled K-A's contribution to their art and forgot a small word called 'gratitude'.

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Their shows - K-A virtually were the first names to make top-grade singers and stars take to the stage - were full of songs composed by others: a unique feature in egoistical Bollywood where contemporaries were to be bitched about and put down.

The two spiritually inclined brothers should have been born misfits in the Bollywood jungle.

But his memories remain alive as much for their phenomenal body of work as his self-effacing genial nature and his globally-famous sense of humour.ДЄlways known to put back what they earned in terms of name, fame and fortune back into the industry, Kalyanji Anandji spent a lifetime serving social and charitable causes, discovering and tirelessly grooming new talent and setting a distinctly individualistic work ethic in a milieu where everyone was overtly or subtly self-centred.

Two years ago, August 24, 2000, Kalyanji passed away. Never self-centred or egoistic, they were far from the aggressive go-getters that one would expect from men whose origins lay in the hardcore Kutchi business community. In their long, consistently successful career, Kalyanji and Anandji's approach to music was more like a hobby than a profession. They were in an altogether different league. What set Kalyanji Anandji apart from their contemporaries

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