Career
He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Senator, Pankaj Mullick and Salil Chowdhury in Calcutta (now Kolkata) as well as Shankar Jaikishan and Laxmikant Pyarelal in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction. He work on Govind Nihalani"s, and, besides two of Mahesh Bhatt"s early classics and Janam (1985).
