Some of the notable films in which Burman is credited as the music assistant include Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi (1958), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959), Tere Ghar Ke Samne (1963), Bandini (1963), Ziddi (1964), Guide (1965) and Teen Devian (1965). He served as an assistant to his father, and often played harmonica in his orchestras. He also considered Salil Chowdhury his guru. In Mumbai, Burman was trained by Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( sarod) and Samta Prasad ( tabla).

The tune of the song Sar jo tera chakraaye was also composed by him as a child his father included it in the soundtrack of Guru Dutt's Pyaasa (1957). Burman composed his first song, Aye meri topi palat ke aa, which his father used in the film Funtoosh (1956). Burman was a noted music director in Bollywood, the Mumbai-based Hindi film industry. īurman received his early education in West Bengal. Yet another version is that when the veteran Indian actor Ashok Kumar saw a newborn Rahul uttering the syllable Pa repeatedly, he nicknamed the boy Pancham. Another theory says that the baby was nicknamed Pancham because he could cry in five different notes. According to some stories, he was nicknamed Pancham because, as a child, whenever he cried, it sounded in the fifth note ( Pa), G scale, of music notation in Hindustani Classical Music, Pancham is the name of the fifth scale degree: (IAST: Ṣaḍja, Ṛṣabha, Gandhāra, Madhyama, Pañcama, Dhaivata, Niṣāda). Initially, he was nicknamed Tublu by his maternal grandmother, although he later became known by the nickname Pancham. Burman was born to the Bollywood composer and singer, Sachin Dev Burman, and his lyricist wife Meera Dasgupta (née Dasgupta), in Calcutta.

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