He scored music for 71 films from 1943–72, including some evergreens like "hame to loot liya mil ke husn waalo ne" and others.
[citation needed] As he started to work, he met some very big personalities who were very prominent names in music then such as Ghulam Haider, D. N. Madhok etc.
[citation needed] He sang his first playback song "Ruth Na Pyaar Mein" under Khemchand in the film Mehmaan (1942).
Moorti was a popular musical and Mukesh sang one of his first hit songs in the film, "Badariya Baras Gai Us Paar".
[5] As the new generation of composers like Shankar Jaikishan, Salil Chowdhury, O. P. Nayyar were becoming prominent in Indian cinema, Bulo was no longer as active by the late 1950s.
Some of his songs in this period were hits such as "Humein Toh Loot Liya" (Al Hilaal, 1958), "Mangne Se Jo Maut Mil Jati" (Sunehre Qadam, 1966).
[citation needed] He committed suicide by self immolation on 23 May 1993 at the age of 73 years in Mumbai, after his family sold their house at Shivaji Park and moved to Versova.