 Ghosh gained fame in the mid-1960s when Rushdi sang his compositions in films like "Chakori (1967)", "Jahan Tum Wahan Hum", "Paisa", etc.Robin Ghosh's father worked for the International Red Cross and was posted at Baghdad during the Second world war, where Ghosh was educated in a convent school.His father was a Bengali Hindu, who had never converted to Christianity and his mother was an Arab Catholic Christian named Asnat Zia Ghosh, a Baghdadi Catholic Christian.