The charming actor Mahesh Thakur with a child-like innocence and great acting capabilities has won the hearts of the audiences with some performance-oriented roles in television soaps. He catapulted to fame by meting out brilliant performance in the hit show `Sailaab`. He has also won many accolades for his roles in the superhit comedy show `Tu Tu Main Main` and in the family entertainer `Thoda Hai Thode Ki Zaroorat Hai`. Recently he was seen in another well-admired comedy soap `Shararat`. He is not seen in any female dominated soaps and he claimed in a recent interview, "I am not ready to play second fiddle all the time".

Mahesh Thakur does not believe in going about looking for rols. He believes that the roles come naturally to him. He has already made his mark in the Bollywood Film Industry by acting in the multistarrer Bollywood blockbuster `Hum Saath Saath Hain`. He also made a brief appearance in a soap called `Bidaai` but his track ended quite early in the show, as it was a cameo, which he did for his friend Rajan Sharma who made his debut as a producer with that serial. He has always been a very known face in the television medium and has worked in a large number of advertisements as well. In fact he enjoys most working in advertisements, which have real fine scripts.

Mahesh Thakur has also been active involved in theater and has done a large number of plays in almost all the popular mediums. He thoroughly enjoys performing on stage and appeared in an English play `Made For Each Other`. He enjoys both serious and comic roles have both give him equal creative satisfaction. He also claims that intense roles attracts larger number of audience and are taken very heavily due to the emotional effects that it casts on the viewers. About his co-stars he shares a very good opinion and gels well with all of them. He has also not been a part of any trivial or major controversies.

Currently Mahesh Thakur is working for a show, which is to be aired on the 9X channel. In this soap he plays a happy-go-lucky character with which he can absolutely relate his real life. He enacts the character of a principal who has his values right and is not a regressive man. He also portrays the kind of parent that every child in this world dreams of having. About his long absence from the television circuit he claims that he was not happy with the roles that were being showered on him and preferred to be a bit choosy. He also takes out time in between his acting schedules to visit his mother in the United States.