Some of his works in mother of pearl include Gandhiji's Noakhali Expedition, Indira Gandhi and Nur Jahan.

Some of his works are held in the personal collections of Bidhan Chandra Roy, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal and Satyajit Ray.

[7] Munshi, after finishing his matriculation, started working as a novice in the studio of painter Prahlad Karmakar in Calcutta.

[5] Among his wire sculptures and portraits, some examples are Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Swami Vivekananda, Mahatma Gandhi, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Bhagat Singh.

"[3]During his entire career as an art activist, Munshi was patronized by many personalities of the same era[clarification needed] including his own elder brother Annada Munshi, Satyajit Ray, Barrister Subodh Chandra Roy, Bidhan Chandra Roy, Subho Tagore,[12] Hiranmay Bandopadhyay, Rajen Tarafdar, Humayun Kabir and Jehangir Kabir.