muttusamy worked as the assistant music director on the first sinhalese film "kadawunu poronduwa" in 1941 under the tutelage of r. narayana iyer. he subsequently travelled to sri lanka and found work there as a member of the state-run radio ceylon's tamil orchestra (october 20, 1952) and then with the sundera murugan studio in kandana built by producer nayagam (1953).