[1] Bedi started his career by working for a printing press and the publicity department of a commercial firm and then took up a job in the film industry in 1947, the year of the partitioning of India and Pakistan into independent nations.
[4] At the start of his career in the early 1950s, his photographic assignments covered small events, mostly related to weddings and birthday celebrations[4] or serving as the third or fourth assistant to a Bollywood film director.
[3] He took more than 2,000 photo shoots during the span of his career and covered projects from industries such as steel and oil, hospitality, mines, sugar, pharmaceuticals and many more.
[4] To propagate black-and-white photography as a profession in the country he wrote many articles and also established an academy in Bombay which is still operational under the direction of his family members.
In spite of the limiting aspects of photographs taken primarily for advertising,[4] Bedi introduced shape, design and geometric planes to create artistic rather than simply functional images.
Writing in The Hindu, Ranjit Hoskote observed:[4] It took the late Mitter Bedi's pioneering efforts to demonstrate that industrial photography had scope for creativity.
Unwittingly, perhaps, he has also bequeathed us with a moving account of the bold initial success, and eventual tragic failure, of the Nehruvian idea of modernity.