Four years after Nagin, Kalyanji had arrived as music director, with Samrat Chandragupta. Five years later, musician Kalyanji was playing it here, in India, in film song takes. Developed in France by a designer named Constant Martin, the clavioline was introduced in 1947.
‘Tan dole’, a Hemant Kumar tune from a box-office hit, was the chart-topper of 1954, so listeners took good notice of its mesmerising been theme. Kalyanji had first used the instrument in a film called Naag Panchami (1953, music Chitragupta), but that went largely un-noticed. It was, and remains, Kalyanji Virji Shah’s best-known musical signature. More than half a century after the cobra swayed to the clavioline, masquerading as the been, in ‘Tan dole mera man dole’, its notes still reverberate across India, and in many other parts of the world.
From sleeve notes written for SaReGaMa’s LEGENDS CD set in 2009:
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