Mukhopadhyay was introduced to the folk music of
Bengal and
Hindi film music by the film-music composer
Salil Chowdhury. His friendship with
Salil Chowdhury started in the late '40s through their common association with IPTA. The duo gave the
Bengali audience songs like "Shyamal Barani Ogo Konya", "Klanti Name Go", "Ekdin Phire Jabo Chole", "Pallabini Go Sancharini" and many others. They worked on two poems of
Michael Madhusudan Dutt, "Rekho Maa Dashere Mone" and Ashar Cholone Bhuli". Later Mukhopadhyay went to
Mumbai to work with
Salil Chowdhury and recorded duet songs with
Lata Mangeshkar for Hindi films like 'Honeymoon' (1960), 'Maayaa' (1961), 'Sapan Suhaane' (1961) and solo playback in '
Madhumati', {This song did not find place in the film, but was released on LP}. He was an exponent of
Rabindrasangeet which he has performed
Rabindrasangeet in Bengali films like 'Kshudita Pashan' (1960), based on a short story by
Rabindranath Tagore, and 'Sandhya Raag' (1977) under Music Directors
Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and
Pandit Ravi Shankar, respectively, as well as
Rabindrasangeet in 'Kancher Swarga' (1963),
Bon Palashir Padabali (1973), and 'Wheel Chair' (1994). Mukhopadhyay had also performed the devotional song 'Jaago Durga' as a part of the musical play 'Mahisasura Mardini' (The Annihilation of the Demon), which is a radio programme broadcast by
All India Radio (AIR),
Kolkata, every year on the day of 'Mahalaya' marking the beginning of the autumn festival of '
Durga Puja'. He sang before dignitaries such as
Josip Broz Tito (President of Yugoslavia),
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (President of India), Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru (Prime Minister of India),
Indira Gandhi (Prime Minister of India). As a member of 'Indian Cultural Delegation', he toured the
Soviet Union and East European countries like
Poland,
Romania,
Czechoslovakia,
Bulgaria, and
Yugoslavia. He also was invited to perform in the US, the UK, France,
Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Singapore and
Bangladesh. == Affiliations ==