Bhaskar began his career as second camera assistant in Sir Richard Attenborough’s magnum opus, Gandhi (1980).

He continued to assist A K Bir on three more feature films namely, Pankaj Parashar’s Ab Ayega Mazaa (1982), Sagar Sarhadi’s Tere Sheher Mein (1983) and Prasad Productions’ Mera Ghar Mere Bachche (1984).

After his apprenticeship with A K Bir in Mumbai G S Bhaskar came back to Bangalore and joined Girish Kasaravalli as associate director on the national award-winning film Tabarana Kathe (1987).

Having been one of the early entrants in the field of professional Videography and Digital Cinema he contributed enormously through his creative involvement in the making of innumerable promotional films, documentaries and TVCs.

[8] G S Bhaskar made his debut as cinematographer with Girish Kasaravalli’s maiden telefilm, Bannada Vesha (1988) produced by Doordarshan Kendra.