He devoted a chapter to Mubarak Begum in The Hindi Music Jukebox: Exploring Unforgettable Songs (2018), and has published a biography of Hemant Kumar in 2020.

By the age of ten, he had moved to Mumbai, where he became acquainted with the nearby qawwali singer Jaani Babu Qawwal, who arranged for him to learn the bulbul tarang.

[citation needed] He served as a Jury Member for the Bengaluru Film Festival in March 2022,[15] and was presented a memento by the Governor of Karnataka for the same.

[7][19] For his Mass Communications students, in July 2022, he conducted a field trip showing where the first cinema was shown in India, as also from where the first radio signals were sent.

[20] In October 2022, Premchand was felicitated for his work in writing on Hindi cinema by FLO, the ladies wing of FICCI (Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry).

[25] More recently, in the summer of 2023, he did video presentations on singer Mohammed Rafi[26] and hero-turned-villain, actor Ajit[27] also for the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kala Kendra, Mumbai.

He curated and presented a talk and audiovisual on qawwalis down the years, also for Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kala Kendra in October 2023, and on Poet and Lyricist Shailendra for the Asiatic Society of Mumbai, in December 2023.

[28] Recently Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Kala Kendra, Mumbai, organized a special audio-visual show with Cine Society, as homage to legendary radio host Ameen Sayani after the latter passed away.

Among his essays is one about the contribution of Parsis in Hindi cinema,[34] and an article on Dilip Kumar[35] with a focus on his musical prowess and abilities for The Indian Performing Right Society Limited (IPRS).

Recently, an article for The Indian Express quotes from his book on Majrooh Sultanpuri[37] while reporting Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's remarks about curtailing the freedom of artists.

Premchand began writing his first book, Yesterday's Melodies, Today's Memories, in January 1997, with the aim of giving songwriters, lyricists and singers of what he calls "the golden era of Hindi film music", credit.

[1] In his research he interviewed several people including singer Manna Dey, poet Majrooh and lyricist and composer Prem Dhawan.

[42] The book was described as having "excellent short sketches of the major composers, singers, lyricists, and arrangers" in Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance.

[52] Mahmood was a favourite of his and his mother and he stated in an interview that "my book on him was a way of saying 'Thanks Talatji, for the hundreds of hours you gave me joy ...and sometimes tears'.

[3] In his foreword to Premchand's book Romancing the Song, Dadasaheb Phalke award winner, filmmaker-lyricist Gulzar has compared the work with Jawaharlal Nehru's The Discovery of India.

[65] His most recent work was as the editor of Shyam - A Star Forgotten, a book that outlines the journey of a Bollywood actor who passed away tragically in May 1951.