Background
He is the son of music director Kalyanji Virji Shah of composer duo Kalyanji Anandji.
He is the son of music director Kalyanji Virji Shah of composer duo Kalyanji Anandji.
He started his music composing career in 1989 with the movie Tridev. Later in 1992, he composed for movie Vishwatma where the song "Saat Samundar Paar" was a superhit song and is still a favorite among the people. His first breakthrough came two years later, in 1994 with Mohra.
He composed many hit songs which included "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast", "Tip Tip Barsa Pani".
The music album went on to become the second most sold album of that year. Since then he has composed for hit movies like Tere Mere Sapne, Gupt, Bade Miyan Chote Miyan, Pyaar Ishq Aur Mohabbat.
During the 15 years career, Viju Shah mostly worked with Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet, Amit Kumar, Hariharan, Sadhana Sargam, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Anuradha Paudwal, Sapna Mukherjee, Sonu Nigam, Sudesh Bhosle, Vinod Rathod, Shaan & Jolly Mukherjee.