Dinesh Thakur is an actor, writer and director in Hindi and Malayalam cinema, credited on Aastha: In the Prison of Spring (1997).
Dinesh Thakur (8 August 1947 – 20 September 2012) was an Indian theatre director, actor in theatre, television and Hindi film, where most notably he appeared as one of the leads in Rajnigandha 1974 and directed by Basu Chatterjee, which won both Filmfare Best Movie Award and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. Dinesh Thakur was born in 1947 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. He was the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976.
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Filmography.
| Year | Film | Role | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Aastha: In the Prison of Spring | Actor | Hindi |
| 1988 | Raj Dulari | Director | Hindi |
| 1983 | Manju | Actor | Malayalam |
| 1978 | Ghar | Actor · Writer | Hindi |
| 1974 | Rajnigandha | Actor | Hindi |
| 1971 | Anubhav | Actor | Hindi |
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