Gauribidanur Suryanarayan Bhaskar (born 2 March 1955) familiarly known as G.S. Bhaskar is an Indian cinematographer. His work is predominantly seen in films belonging to the Indian languages, Kannada and Hindi. He is a member of the

Indian Society of Cinematographers Indian cinematographers work in a number of regional film centres: Mumbai for films in Marathi and Hindi, Hyderabad for Telugu films, Chennai for Tamil films, Kochi for films in Malayalam, Kolkata for Bengali films, Bangalore for Kannada films ...

. Known for his prominent work as a second camera assistant in the magnum opus Gandhi (1980).

Karnataka State Film Award for Best Cinematographer Karnataka State Film Award for Best Cinematographer is a state film award of the Indian state of Karnataka given during the annual Karnataka State Film Awards. The award honors Kannada language films. Superlative winners indicates one Awardee ...

has been bestowed upon him twice for Nagamandala (1997) and Koormavatara (2011). Bhaskar has also served as a member of the Jury on

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Early life

G.S Bhaskar was born in Bangalore on 2 March 1955 to G. Suryanarayana Rao and Lakshmidevi. He is the youngest of 4 children. He studied at National High School and

National College, Bangalore National College, Bengaluru is the name given to two sister institutions in Bengaluru, India: the National College Basavanagudi, founded in 1919, and the National College, Jayanagar, founded in 1965. Other related institutions, also called Nat ...

and obtained his bachelor's degree from

Bangalore University Bangalore University (BU) is a public state university in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. The university is a part of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and affiliated by University Gra ...

Career

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 Girish Kasaravalli (born 3 December 1950) is an Indian film director, in the Kannada cinema, and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema. Known internationally for his works, Kasaravalli has garnered fourteen National Film Awards, including f ...

that G S Bhaskar took up film studies at the prestigious Indian film institute, the Pune-based

Film and Television Institute of India The Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) is a film institute under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India and aided by the Central Government of India. ...

familiarly known as FTII in 1976. While studying at FTII he was mentored by the legendary cinematographer,

Subrata Mitra Subrata Mitra (12 October 1930 – 7 December 2001) was an Indian cinematographer. Acclaimed for his work in ''The Apu Trilogy'' (1955–1959), Mitra often is considered one of the greatest Indian cinematographers. Early life and educati ...

It was his classmate, Asvani Kaul who introduced G S Bhaskar to

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, 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,

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’s

Ab Ayega Mazaa ''Ab Ayega Mazaa'' () is a 1984 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Pankaj Parashar and produced by actors Alok Nath and Girija Shankar. It stars Farooq Sheikh and Anita Raj . This film introduced music directors Anand–Milind who went o ...

(1982),

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’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). The duo successfully collaborated again on the award-winning documentary, Bharavaseya Hongirana produced by

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. He filmed a film on conservation titled ‘Afforestation’ (1987) for B S Achar, the well-known photo-journalist and also served as cinematographer for a series of short films on Adult Literacy directed by the pioneer of the ‘New Wave’ in Kannada cinema. 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. G S Bhaskar made his debut as cinematographer with

’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. He has worked as the cinematographer with many renowned filmmakers including M. S. Sathyu,

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and

Nagesh Kukunoor Nagesh Kukunoor (born 30 March 1967) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor known for his works predominantly in Hindi cinema, and few Telugu films. He is known for his works in parallel cinema, such as '' Hyderabad Blues' ...

. He is one of the pioneers of the format of tele-serials in Kannada and worked as the Director of Photography on the much-acclaimed tele-serial, Dodmane (1988) telecast on

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. His work as the Director of Photography was instrumental in making the tele-serial Guddada Bhootha. A household name and a rage in coastal Karnataka in the early 1990s. Guestline Days by Mohena Singh was another tele serial on which he served as

Director of Photography The cinematographer or director of photography (sometimes shortened to DP or DOP) is the person responsible for the recording of a film, television production, music video or other live-action piece. The cinematographer is the chief of the camera ...

Filmography

*''Bannada Vesha'' (1988) (Hindi) *''

'' (1984) (Hindi) *'' Meraa Ghar Mere Bachche'' (1985) (Hindi) *'' Disha'' (1990) (Hindi) *''

Kubi Matthu Iyala ''Kubi Matthu Iyala'' is a 1992 Indian Kannada-language comedy drama film directed and produced by Sadanand Suvarna and written by Poornachandra Tejaswi based on his own story. The film featured Charuhasan, Raghubir Yadav, Lalithanjali and Vaish ...

'' (1992) *'' Galige'' (1994) *'' Nagamandala'' (1997) *'' Saaz'' (1998) (Hindi) *'' Hyderabad Blues 2'' (2004) (English) *''

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'' (2008) *'' Ijjodu'' (2010) *'' Koormavatara'' (2011) *'' ...Re'' (2016) *'' Alama'' (2017) *'' Mookajjiya Kanasugalu'' (2019) *''Abracadabra'' (Yet to be released)

Awards

*Best cinematographer 1996–97 Karnataka State Film Awards for the film Nagamandala *Best cinematographer 2011 Karnataka State Film Awards for the film Koormavatara

References

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