His portrayal of Vishwa, a possessive teenager who kidnaps his childhood friend whom he is obsessed with and although she has married someone else, was acclaimed by critics.

[8] He played his first main lead role in Balaji Sakthivel's Tamil romantic-drama film Kaadhal that featured him as a poor mechanic who falls in love and elopes with a wealthy twelfth-standard student.

[11][9] Pattiyal, a gangster thriller, was his first release in 2006 and went to become a box office hit,[12] with Bharath garnering accolades for his performance as a deaf and dumb hitman.

[13] Later that year, he starred in Azhagai Irukkirai Bayamai Irukkirathu, Em Magan, Chennai Kadhal and Veyil.

In 2008, he appeared in Perarasu's Pazhani alongside Kajal Aggarwal and Khushbu which was an average success, and then Nepali, directed by V. Z. Durai.

That year he had two more releases, Muniyandi Vilangial Moonramandu, which saw him collaborating with the Em Magan team again, and Hari's Seval.

In 2009 he acted in Arumugam, directed by Suresh Krishna and Kanden Kadhalai, the Tamil remake of the 2007 Bollywood film Jab We Met.

[24] The film was about four people who try to con one another for money and Bharath played one of them, a Goan named Anthony D'Souza from Puducherry.

[26] Bharath subsequently appeared as autistic youngster in a Malayalam project titled 1000 – Oru Note Paranja Katha (2015), which garnered poor reviews on release.

In 2017, he appeared in Ennodu Vilayadu and Kadugu directed by Vijay Milton was a solid comeback, but the film was an average hit.

[29][30] Kaalidas, which is directed by Sri Senthil, released on 13 December 2019, featured Bharath as a cop for the first time in his career.

[32] In 2021, Bharath plays as a cop in Hindi action movie Radhe with Salman Khan directed by Prabhu Deva.

He later starred in two Malayalam thriller movie with Dulquer Salmaan in Kurup and then with the actors Lal and Ajmal Ameer in Kshanam.