[5] On returning to India, he joined the leading architectural firm, Phoroze Kudianavala and Associates as a senior consultant.

He initiated the use of smoke detectors, sprinklers, positive air pressure and other practices which are now prescribed by law for new buildings.

Due to his extensive writing on cinema, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting placed him on the advisory board of the Film Censor Board where he drafted a liberalised and simplified censorship code which eventually formed the basis for the official film certification code.

Examples are Govind Nihalani, Saeed Mirza, Aparna Sen, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Ketan Mehta, Goutam Ghose.

Dharker was also responsible for opening the Akashwani Auditorium in South Bombay as an art movie theatre.

Dharker's most significant contribution to NFDC was to enable it to co-produce Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi, the multiple Oscar winner.

Over the years, he conducted hundreds of interviews with prime ministers, governors, Nobel Prize-winning writers, film directors and actors and several others for the national broadcaster, Doordarshan.

[9] After his foray into television, Anil Dharker returned to full-time journalism, this time as a free-lance columnist.