page_title: Mulshankar Mulani
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Mulshankar Mulani / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Bapulal Nayak and Jayshankar Bhojak 'Sundari' (sleeping) in a play 'Saubhagya Sundari' in 1901.
context_page_description: Mulshankar Harinand Mulani was a Gujarati playwright from the Gujarati theatre of India. After working as a village development officer and as an editor with a weekly newspaper, he joined the Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali, a theatre company, where he worked as a playwright for decades. He wrote more than fifty plays on social, mythological and historical subjects including commercially or critically successful plays like Rajbeej, Ajabkumari, Saubhagya Sundari, Nandbatrisi and Krishnacharitra.
context_section_description: Mulani was one of the prominent playwrights of the old Gujarati theatre. He had written more than fifty plays on social, mythological and historical subjects; about twenty eight staged, four not staged and fourteen adapted plays. His popular plays include Rajbeej (1891), Ajabkumari (1899, 1912), Saubhagyasundari (1901), Nandbatrisi (1906) and Krishnacharitra (1906). Krishnacharitra and Devkanya are published as books. His Porus Sikandar is published but never performed on the stage.
  He wrote and composed songs for musical plays with help of his knowledge of folk-tunes and metres before writing plays. His songs for Kulin Kanta became popular.
  His plays depict the most noticeable features of old Gujarati theatre, including the technique of setting, music and acting, and the theme of triumph of good over evil was central in his plays. He drew inspiration from historical or mythological episodes and wove it in the contemporary events. His plays also focused on the conflicts arising from the human relations.
caption: Bapulal Nayak and Jaishankar Sundari in Mulani's popular play Saubhagya Sundari (1901)
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