Ramaprasad Banik

{{Short description|Bengali actor, director and playwright (1954–2010)}}

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| name = Ramaprasad Banik

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| native_name = রমাপ্রসাদ বণিক

| birth_date = {{Birth-date|28 December 1954}}

| birth_place = Calcutta, West Bengal, India

| death_date = {{Death date and age|27 December 2010|28 December 1954}}

| death_place = Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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| occupation = Actor

| spouse = Sumitra Banik

| children = 2

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Ramaprasad Banik (রমাপ্রসাদ বণিক) (1954–2010) was a Bengali theatre actor, director and playwright.{{cite news|title=Theatre personality Ramaprasad Banik dead|url=http://www.thehindu.com/arts/theatre/article1011849.ece|access-date=25 June 2012|newspaper=The Hindu|date=29 December 2010}}{{cite web|title=Eminent theatre personality Ramaprasad Banik dead|url=http://www.sify.com/movies/eminent-theatre-personality-ramaprasad-banik-dead-news-national-km2o4gajjeh.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231191522/http://www.sify.com/movies/eminent-theatre-personality-ramaprasad-banik-dead-news-national-km2o4gajjeh.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 December 2010|website=Sify (Source: IANS)|access-date=25 June 2012}} He also worked in films and televisions. He started his career at a very early age with Putul khela, which was an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. This play was directed by Sombhu Mitra. Banik was called protégé of the Sombhu Mitra. Banik wrote and acted in many plays for Bohurupee. In 1981 he left Bohurupee he created his own theatre group Chena Mukh. In 1991 he created another theatre group "Theatre Passion" He was a very prominent part of the Nehru Children's Museum theatre classes.{{cite web|title=Rama Prasad Banik dies at private hospital in Kolkata|url=http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bangla/top-stories/2010/rama-prasad-banik-died-kolkata-291210.html|work=OneIndia|access-date=25 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130218135817/http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bangla/top-stories/2010/rama-prasad-banik-died-kolkata-291210.html|archive-date=18 February 2013}}