Young Rasheed acquired his initial music lessons from Khan Sahib Ashfaq Husain.
[4][3] Rashid Attre was selected as the music director to compose songs for the Bombay Talkies' first Muslim social film Nateeja (1947), whose superhit ghazal ‘Kahan mein aur kahan deen-e-haram ki kashmakash, Nakhshab, kis kay naqsh-e-pa per rakh diya ghabra kay sar mein nay' is popular to date.
[4] Once he migrated to Pakistan with his family in 1948,[3] he initially was not able to take full advantage of noted singer Noor Jehan's singing talent, because Noor Jehan, in those days, would sing only for those films in which she also acted.
So Rashid Attre used playback singers Zubaida Khanum and Naseem Begum in the early years of his career in Pakistan.
Later, when Noor Jehan changed her mind, he composed music for many popular songs by her before he died in 1967.