He also sang in the famous Mahisasura Mardini programme of All India Radio. Shyamal Mitra had a long association with All India Radio. He came back to Kolkata again and created many hit tracks in both Bengali basic and film songs. He worked in Shakti Samanta's films, like Amanush, Anand Ashram, F.C.Mehra's film Bandi, Basu Chatterjee's films like Safed Jhoot, and Mamta. He worked in three films: Musafer, Biraj Bou, and Naukri. Shyamal Mitra went to Mumbai in the early fifties with Salil Chowdhury. He was also the distributor and producer of "Garh Nasimpur". Then he produced more films like Rajkanya, Kheya, and Ami Se O Sakha. In 1963, he produced a film called Deya Neya, another milestone of his career. During this period he also worked as playback singer in many Bengali films. During the fifties and early sixties he composed music for hit films like Joy Maa Kali Boarding, Jamalaye Jibonto Manush, and Bhranti Bilash. Shyamal Mitra started working as a singer and music composer for the Bengali music industry. He became one of the leading singers and composers of the country. That was the turning point and he never looked back after that.
After the sad demise of Sudhirlal Chackraborty in 1952, he recorded "Smriti Tumi Bedonar". under the supervision of Sudhirlal Chackraborty. He started struggling till he got a chance to playback in "Sunandar Biye" with Supriti Ghosh and Pratima Bandyopadhyay in 1949, and recorded his first basic songs from H.M.V. Then Shyamal Mitra came to Kolkata and met Sudhirlal Chackraborty. There he met Satinath Mukhopadhyay, another prominent exponent of modern music.
Shyamal Mitra went to Hooghly Mohsin College, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta, for his graduation degree. Young Shyamal Mitra and his youngest sister Reba used to sing "O Aalor Pathajatree" on the road for I.P.T.A. movement used to visit Sadhan-babu's house and this gave the chance to young Shyamal Mitra to come in contact with Salil Chowdhury. The father wanted his son to follow in his footsteps and to become a doctor, but the son was very keen on music and was always inspired by his mother and the local singer Mrinal Kanti Ghosh. Sadhan Kumar Mitra, was a reputed doctor in Naihati. Their native village was Patul, near Seakhala. Shyamal Mitra was born in Naihati, a city near Kolkata, India.
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