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Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1970-08-05

Place of Birth

Brindanagar, Bhilai, Chhattisgarh,India

Omkar Das Manikpuri

Biography

Omkar Das Manikpuri is an India stage and film actor, has started his career at the age of 17, as a performer in the local form of folk theatre called Nacha and joined an itinerant village theatre group. Manikpuri has been a member of folk-theatre doyen Habib Tanvir's, the Naya Theatre company for several years. He made his Hindi film debut as a male lead in Aamir Khan productions' Peepli Live (2010).

Known for

Jawan

Jawan

An emotional journey of a prison warden, driven by a personal vendetta while keeping up to a promise made years ago, recruits inmates to commit outrageous crimes that shed light on corruption and injustice, in an attempt to get even with his past, and that leads him to an unexpected reunion.

Gaon

Gaon

A village kept secret for centuries receives a visitor at long last and finds the course of its destiny changed forever.

Peepli Live

Peepli Live

Natha decides to commit suicide to get the farmers' compensation. However, the media and politicians learn about his intentions and descend on their village to capture the rare event.

Baby John

Baby John

John's peaceful life with daughter Khushi is disrupted by a sex-trafficking gang. Revealing his past as DCP Satya, he seeks revenge for his family's murder, saving minor girls and punishing the criminals, before starting anew.

Pizza

Pizza

Terror strikes when a pizza deliveryman becomes trapped in a haunted house.

Blue Gold

Blue Gold

After a desperate laborer from the lower caste steals water from the local Brahmin temple, he is banished from his water-impoverished village, forcing him to take destiny into his own hands.

Mission Raniganj

Mission Raniganj

A real-life story of additional chief mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill who helped in the rescue of people when a coal mine in Raniganj, West Bengal, was flooded. The incident dates back to 1989.

Tumse Na Ho Payega

Tumse Na Ho Payega

When the world starts regarding Gaurav as a loser, he sets off on a journey to prove everyone (and their mothers) wrong.

Unda

Unda

SI Manikandan and his police team are dispatched to Basthar, a Maoist area for election duty where they aren't trained to handle the attacks in a territory field filled with land mines while being armed with unnecessary ammunition.

Bandit Shakuntala

Bandit Shakuntala

Shakuntala grows up in poverty, part of the lowest cast in Indian society. At a young age she decides to improve her position and make a better life for herself through studying hard. But at the age of 12 she is brutally raped by the Chief of her village, humiliated and dishonored she is unable to get justice. Forced into an arranged marriage with a drunkard, the marriage doesn't last. But tragedy strikes again as she is gang raped again by the Chief together with a mob of villagers. When rescued by Nadeem, an outlaw bandit, she is taught the skills on how to avenge herself. Gun in hand she seeks revenge for everything she and other women like her, have had to endure. Her name instills dread and fear, but this is just the start of her journey for justice and retribution.

Newton

Newton

A government clerk on election duty in a conflict-ridden jungle of Central India tries his best to conduct free and fair voting despite the apathy of security forces and the looming fear of guerrilla attacks by communist rebels.

Bheed

Bheed

8 hours, complete lockdown in the whole of India, movement shut and state borders sealed. Thousands of migrants without food, water and mode of transport were forced to return to their homes. A crisis that shook the whole nation, a time when borders of disparity divided the people and one man stood for humanity.

Munna Mange Memsaab

Munna Mange Memsaab

What's the movie aboutMunna Mange Memsaab is the story of a small village boy (Munna) who is unfriendly, not handsome as well as not intelligent. Despite this his mother would tell him that he is the most handsome boy on the earth and he will marry somebeautiful Memsaab. Munna grows up thinking and dreaming of his mother's wish, believing that he will to get marry a Memsaab. Finally one day he goes to the city to fulfil this dream. But will it be accomplished? Will Munna find his true love?

Bhulan The Maze

Bhulan The Maze

National Award winning Movie

Khatoon Ki Khidmat

Khatoon Ki Khidmat

A satire based on the life of a man caught between an educated wife and an orthodox father.