Most of her career has been spent on the stage, acting in plays by master playwrights including Tennessee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire, Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party, and Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Thakore began her film career as casting director and unit publicist with Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982).

Since then she has worked on a number of Indian and international co-productions like Far Pavilions, Kim, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Jinnah, and Such a Long Journey.

When Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal and Kaizaad Kotwal debuted The Vagina Monologues in India in 2003, she was a member of the original cast, alongside Jayati Bhatia, Avantika Akerkar, and Sonali Sachdev.

[8] Thakore is an enthusiastic theatregoer, who frequently contributes reviews of plays and films to leading newspapers and magazines.