Asit Bandopadhyay (or Banerjee) (1936 – 17 September 2020) was a Bengali dramatist, screenwriter and actor. He was associated with the Nandikar theater group. He lived and worked in Kolkata, India. He was a playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. Early life and theatre He developed an interest in drama as a student in Kolkata's Manindra Chandra College, an affiliated undergraduate college of the University of Calcutta, in 1955. He joined the drama group Bohurupee as a trainee in 1959 and completed a year's course under the tutelage of Sambhu Mitra. At maternal uncle's house of Asit Banerjee at B K Pal Avenue, in presence of Ajitesh Banerjee and some friends Dipen Sen Gupta, Satyen Mitra, Mahesh Singha, Asit Banerjee co-founded 'Nandikar' on June 29, 1960. Members of the party's first executive committee were elected: President Ajitesh Banerjee & Secretary Asit Banerjee. Nandikar and Mitra Sammilani From 1960 to 1972, he was involved with Nandikar in all of his early productions, including six characters in search of a playwright, Sher Afghan, Manjari Mango Manjari, When Alone, Bitangs and Three Paisa Pala. He directed the plays Parineeta and Purbabagh at Nandikar. Asit Bandyopadhyay's only role at Tin Poishar Pala (Three Penny Opera) was a duality in the genre of Brecht's acting, his character revealed a fact of history and social evolution in a dialectical coexistence. In this production, Asit Bandopadhyay played the role of Jatindranath Pal, a rich beggar-businessman. His performance is still immortalized in the minds of the audience. The founder of the Bhikkhu Ashram - the trainer of the beggars - his seven humorous performances of cruelty, surpassing his skill as a behind-the-scenes organizer, brought lasting fame to one of the most famous actors of all time. This was the golden age of Nandikar which witnessed Ajitesh Bandopadhyay, Asit Bandopadhyay, Rudra Prasad Sengupta and Keya Chakraborty in many plays together. In Coochbihar he had a brief stance as an actor, director, playwright. He was there in the early seventies for job and got involved in drama. The Banga Sahitya Sammelan was organized at that time on the grounds of Jenkins School in Coochbihar. There he played the lead role in the poetic story drama, accompanied by prominent actors and actresses from Coochbihar. He was thereafter transferred from Coochbihar to Siliguri where he joined the Mitra Sammilani. As Mitra Sammilani entered a golden age of drama, as an actor and director