He is a recent graduate of the MFA Film program at Columbia University. His thesis film TV in the Fish Tail was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. He is an awardee of the John Brabourne Award, the School of the Arts Campbell Award and Columbia University’s Ezra Litwak Award for Distinction in Screenwriting. He was presented the 2016 TFI/ESPN Future Filmmaker Prize. He is twice the recipient of the BAFTA LA Scholarship, and recently listed on BAFTA LA’s Newcomers Program. Thapar is currently developing a proof-of-concept short with Film London/BFI for his feature, Alien Kulture.