Chhotalal Rukhdev Sharma


Chhotalal Rukhdev Sharma was a Gujarati playwright.

Biography

He had studied Sanskrit in childhood and had studied Raghuvansh by Kalidas. His first play Madhav Vilas was produced by Amdavad Gujarati Natak Company. He had a long career with Deshi Natak Samaj. He used unconventional Savaiya, Shikharini and Totak metres in musical plays instead of popular Betabaji metre. He wanted to start his own theatre company so he had consulted poet Fulchandbhai Shah to write Rajhans based on Dashakumaracharitra but he died soon in 1926.

Works

His plays are as follows:
DateTitleTheatre companyNotes
1899Madhav VilasAmdavad Gujarati Natak Company
1904Vijay KamlaDeshi Natak SamajFirst act by Dahyabhai Dholshaji Zaveri
1905ChandrasinhAmdavad Gujarat Arya Natak Samaj
26 October 1905Sati SitaDeshi Natak Samaj
1906GeetasundariDeshi Natak Samaj
6 September 1906BhagwadgeetaDeshi Natak Samaj
1908Sati DraupadiDeshi Natak Samaj
1910Jalim TuliyaDeshi Natak Samaj
11 March 1912SaraswatichandraAryanitidarshak Natak SamajBased on Saraswatichandra by Govardhanram Tripathi
6 July 1912SanyasiDeshi Natak Samaj
12 December 1912Kulin NayikaDeshi Natak Samaj
12 April 1913AjitsinhDeshi Natak Samaj
1914Sati SulochnaDeshi Natak Samaj
1915Sati DamayantiDeshi Natak Samaj
1916AshokDeshi Natak Samaj
1917Siddha SatyendraKachchh Nitidarshak Natak SamajBased on Gulabsinh by Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi
1918AhalyabaiKachchh Nitidarshak Natak Samaj
1918Rukmani SwayamvarKachchh Nitidarshak Natak Samaj