Complex sentence: An influential Parsi theatre playwright, he first wrote under contract from Alfred Theatre in Mumbai (then Bombay) from 1901 to 1905, thereafter in 1916 he shifted to Madan Theatre's Elphinstone and Corinthian companies in Calcutta.
Split into simpler sentences: An influential Parsi theatre playwright, he first wrote under contract from Alfred Theatre in Mumbai from 1901 to 1905. In 1916, he shifted to Madan Theatre's Elphinstone and Corinthian in Calcutta.