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He built a house, in Southend Park, Ballygunge, Kolkata, and in 1937, at the All India Music Conference, Allahabad, he met a music student at Rabindranath Tagore ’ s Shantiniketan, Meera Dasgupta ( 1923 – 2007 ), the granddaughter of Justice Raibahadur Kamalnath Dasgupta from Dhaka ; soon she became his student and they married on 10 February 1938 in Calcutta, though according to some, having married a non-royal, created a furor within the royal family, and subsequently he severed his ties with the family, and forfeited his inheritance.

According to some others, S. D. Burman severed his ties with the royal family because he was frustrated with the unjust and unfair treatment meted out to his father and his brothers by the royal family of Tripura. The couple's only child, Rahul Dev Burman was born in 1939, and later, both Meera Devi and Rahul assisted, S. D.

Burman with some of the musical compositions.

S D Burman also did a singing role in Urdu film Selima ( 1934 ) and another role in Dhiren Ganguli's film, Bidrohi ( 1935 )