Thapa's latest release was Academy award winning director Danis Tanovic's Indian film, Tigers, along with Emraan Hashmi, where she plays a Pakistani woman, Zainab who is also his newly wedded wife.

[7] In 2016, Thapa starred in the movie Land of the Gods (Dev Bhoomi), playing the role of a young progressive schoolteacher Shaanti, who wants to bring modernity to the village and emphasised on education.

In 2018, she starred alongside Zain Khan Durrani in the romantic drama Kuchh Bheege Alfaaz, where she played the role of Archana Pradhan, who works in a creative agency which designs branded memes and lives life to her fullest.

Thapa's latest release in 2019 is the American crime film, Stray Dolls, whose cast includes Olivia DeJonge and Cynthia Nixon.

[11][12] She currently starred for the short drama movie Frayed Lines, which is the story about two individuals who don't speak a common language but connect and take a step away from a life they have known.