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).
