Mulshankar Harinand Mulani was a Gujarati playwright from the Gujarati theatre of India.
22 Facts About Mulshankar Mulani
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Mulshankar Mulani 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.
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Mulshankar Mulani was born on 1 November 1867 in Chavand to the religious Prashnora Nagar Brahmin family of Harinand Dayanad and Mankunwar.
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Mulshankar Mulani was a descendant of Mula Bhatt who had served as a minister of Nawanagar State before 10 or 12 generations.
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Mulshankar Mulani studied until the fourth standard in English medium in Junagadh and had read religious works and Sanskrit books at his home, later going on to study with a Sanskrit scholar for some time.
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Mulshankar Mulani covered true stories in his column, Ghanghata and became popular.
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Mulshankar Mulani met Prabhurai Popatlal, who offered him a job as a play editor in the Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali, a theatre company, for a salary of five rupees.
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Mulshankar Mulani's health deteriorated and he returned to his native village where he wrote his successful plays, Mularaj Solanki and Karanghelo.
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Mulshankar Mulani demanded his pending sum of 28,000 rupees with the company, but received only 10,000 rupees.
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Mulshankar Mulani subsequently founded the Kathiyawadi Natak Mandali in 1906 in the name of his son-in-law, Vishwanath Madhavji Bhatt.
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Mulshankar Mulani rejoined Mumbai Gujarati Natak Mandali when Nathuram Shukla requested him to rewrite Saubhagyasundari, which had failed to impress the owners and the director of the company.
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Mulshankar Mulani rewrote the play and it premiered on 19 October 1901.
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Mulshankar Mulani's plays influenced Urdu as well as Marathi plays.
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Mulshankar Mulani was one of the prominent playwrights of the old Gujarati theatre.
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Mulshankar Mulani had written more than fifty plays on social, mythological and historical subjects; about twenty eight staged, four not staged and fourteen adapted plays.
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Mulshankar Mulani's popular plays include Rajbeej, Ajabkumari, Saubhagyasundari, Nandbatrisi and Krishnacharitra.
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Mulshankar Mulani wrote and composed songs for musical plays with help of his knowledge of folk-tunes and metres before writing plays.
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Mulshankar Mulani's 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.
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Mulshankar Mulani drew inspiration from historical or mythological episodes and wove it in the contemporary events.
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Mulshankar Mulani's plays focused on the conflicts arising from the human relations.
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Mulshankar Mulani was felicitated by the Bhavnagar Sahitya Sabha in 1944 and the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha in 1946 in Ahmedabad during the Rang Parishad, a theatre conference session.
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Mulshankar Mulani was honoured in Bhangwadi Theatre, Bombay on 14 December 1948 and was awarded rupees 1,50,000.