Her work has screened at 200+ film festivals and museums worldwide, including the Cannes Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Montreal World Film Festival, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Flaherty Seminars, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has received 37 international awards.

Thakur’s films examine how we perceive ourselves and each other through the prisms of history, memory, and identity. Moving fluidly between documentary, experimental, and narrative modes, her films—including Terrible Children, Red Tulips, Sky People, Kairos, Seven Hours to Burn, Two Forms, Circles, and Domino—have broadcast on the Sundance Channel, PBS, and in over twenty countries.

Her latest feature documentary, Terrible Children, is an intimate story piecing together her Indian father’s memories of boyhood in a right-wing paramilitary group, Muslim-Hindu violence during Partition, and his banishment for marrying a Danish woman. Told through vivid narrative, reimagined history, and chronicles of rising nationalism, the film reveals the emotional lives of boys fighting to become men. Terrible Childrenhas won Best Documentary Feature at the Berlin Indie Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Buffalo International Film Festival, and Best Feature Documentary at the Dreamers of Dreams Film Festival in London. It screened at the European Cultural Center’s Palazzo Michiel during the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Whether short or feature-length projects, Thakur serves as director, writer, editor, and producer. Her work has been supported by the National Film Board of Canada, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) in New York, and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.