Rai Chand learnt "Sath Sangat" on the tabla and attended music conferences in Lucknow, Allahabad, and Benares.
He dissolved the Ghazal style of singing from Northern India into the 19th Century Bengali tunes with string instrument medium.
The song, "Main Khush Hona Chahun", had an all women chorus led by Parul Ghosh with Suprabha Sarkar and Harimati picturised in a dance sequence.
He is correctly complimented by late Anil Biswas as the Father of Indian Cinema Music.
[4] Also in the same year he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi award in the Creative and Experimental music category, the highest award for a performing artist, conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy for Music, Dance and Drama.