Inder Thakur

Inder Thakur Biography

Inder Thakur was an Air India purser, actor and model who was killed in a bomb blast of Air India Flight 182 on 23 June 1985. He was a very successful model of Indian fashion industry in the early 1980s who pursued a career in Bollywood. He played a few but noted supporting roles in Hindi cinema, in his short life span in the industry. Perhaps Inder is best remembered for playing Sachin’s elder brother Omkar in 1982 romantic drama movie of Rajasree productions – Nadiya Ke Paar. 12 years later Monish Behl reprised his role in the Hindi remake of the same film titled Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, the blockbuster with Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit in key roles.

Inder Thakur was born in Circa in the year 1950. He earned fame through multi-roles such as actor, fashion designer, and model. He also worked as a purser on Air India. His wife’s name was Priya and the couple had one child. He won the 1985 International Fashion Designer award during the World Modeling Association convention in New York City in May 1985, and was at his peak of his career before death took him away and his family the following month in the infamous bomb blast of Air India Flight 182 on 23 June 1985. The blast took away the life of 329 people on board, which also included the famous chemical engineer and scientist, Yelavarthy Nayudamma.

By the time of his death at the age of 35, he already had 13 years of experience with Air India. The passengers were watching a movie when this incident occurred. Winning the international fashion designer of the year award at New York just a few days back, it was not easy to accept his death in Indian fashion circle then. Air India’s magazine, The Magic Carpet published a picture of Inder captured aside WMA President Ruth Tolman just before his death.

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Updated: June 10, 2018