He received training from his uncle, working with New Theaters, Calcutta (now Kolkata), in various aspects of film making.
[2][1] Ghosh started his career as an assistant cinematographer to Sailen Bose in the film Balayogini released in 1937.
[2] Ghosh worked as the cinematographer in-charge for the Tamil-language Jupiter Pictures film Anaadhai Penn (1938), directed by R. Prakash.
[1] Ghosh also worked as a director in three films; the unsuccessful Paropakaram and Rohini (both 1953) and the successful Manorama (1959).
Due to his limited success as a director, he dropped that career and continued to work as a cinematographer.