Career
He started his career as a theater activist with a group theatre "Rangakarmee". He spent eight years under guidance of Smt. He worked there as an actor, writer as well as a back stage worker
In the year 2000, He went to Mumbai, city of dreams and opportunities to explore new horizons.
He worked with "Nimbus " and wrote several ad films for Asian Sky Shop. He came back to his hometown, Kolkata in 2002 to finish a project and since then he is living in Kolkata.
He has written more than ten television serials for different television channels, worked as an assistant/associate director, and written about 500 songs for films, television serials. He has also many ad films and jingles to his contribution.
Gumshuda"s music album was released by HMV saregama.
He wrote a Hindi song for a Bengali feature film titled "Banobhumi" this was the only original soundtrack in the film and was treated as the theme song of the film. Many Noted singers of Hindi and Bengali music field have sung songs written by Rakesh Tripathi, such as Sonu Nigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan, June Bannerjee, Vinod Rathore, Srikanto Acharya, Shubhomita, Raghav, Rupankar, Jojo, et cetera He has translated 10 Tagore songs in Hindi for a music album – "Ravikiran", which was released by "Saregama" (HMV) in October 2010.
He has written songs for tableaux displayed at Rajpath, New Delhi during The Republic Day Parade on 26th January, 2015.