Chhotalal Rukhdev Sharma

Chhotalal Rukhdev Sharma (died 1926) was a Gujarati playwright.

Biography He had studied Sanskrit in childhood and had studied Raghuvansh by Kalidas. His first play Madhav Vilas (1899) 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: + Works Date Title Theatre companyNotes1899Madhav VilasAmdavad Gujarati Natak Company1904Vijay KamlaDeshi Natak SamajFirst act by Dahyabhai Dholshaji Zaveri1905ChandrasinhAmdavad Gujarat Arya Natak Samaj26 October 1905Sati SitaDeshi Natak Samaj1906GeetasundariDeshi Natak Samaj6 September 1906BhagwadgeetaDeshi Natak Samaj1908Sati DraupadiDeshi Natak Samaj1910Jalim TuliyaDeshi Natak Samaj11 March 1912SaraswatichandraAryanitidarshak Natak SamajBased on Saraswatichandra by Govardhanram Tripathi6 July 1912SanyasiDeshi Natak Samaj12 December 1912Kulin NayikaDeshi Natak Samaj12 April 1913AjitsinhDeshi Natak Samaj1914Sati SulochnaDeshi Natak Samaj1915Sati DamayantiDeshi Natak Samaj1916AshokDeshi Natak Samaj1917Siddha SatyendraKachchh Nitidarshak Natak SamajBased on Gulabsinh by Manilal Nabhubhai Dwivedi1918AhalyabaiKachchh Nitidarshak Natak Samaj1918Rukmani SwayamvarKachchh Nitidarshak Natak Samaj

See also List of Gujarati-language writers

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