Dinesh Thakur is a noted 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. He is the founder-director of ANK productions, a Mumbai-based theatre company, established in 1976.Though he mainly appeared as character roles in Hindi films, as a screenwriter and story writer, he is know for writing the story and screenplay of Ghar (1978), which won him the 1979 Filmfare Best Story Award.