G.S. Bhaskar began his career as second camera assistant in Sir Richard Attenborough's magnum opus,
Gandhi (1980). It was under the guidance of the well-known Indian film director,
Girish Kasaravalli that G S Bhaskar took up film studies at the prestigious Indian film institute, the Pune-based
Film and Television Institute of India familiarly known as FTII in 1976. While studying at
FTII he was mentored by the legendary cinematographer,
Subrata Mitra It was his classmate, Asvani Kaul who introduced G S Bhaskar to
Apurba Kishore Bir, an alumnus of
FTII (1971) whom he assisted on several promotional films before joining him as a member of the camera team on GANDHI. 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). G S Bhaskar made his debut as cinematographer with
Girish Kasaravalli’s maiden telefilm, Bannada Vesha (1988) produced by
Doordarshan Kendra. Since then he has continued to serve the cause of meaningful cinema in Kannada as well as Hindi. ==Filmography==