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Chandravadan Mehta

Chandravadan Chimanlal Mehta, popularly known as C. C. Mehta or Chan. Chi. Mehta, was a Gujarati playwright, theatre critic, bibliographer, poet, story writer, autobiographer, travel writer and broadcaster from Vadodara, Gujarat, India.

Biography
Chandravadan Mehta was born on 6 April 1901 in Surat. His primary education was in Vadodara and secondary education in Surat. He died on 4 May 1991. ==Works==
Works
Mehta is considered as the pioneer of the modern Gujarati theatre. He, along with his friends, wrote and produced several realistic plays such as Akho (1927), Agagadi (1933, translated as Iron Road in 1970), Narmad (1937) and Dhara Gurjari (Land of Gujarat, 1944, published 1968). His other published plays include Mungi Stree (1927), Akho, Varvahu ane Bija Natako (1933), Ramakadani Dukan (1934), Nagabava (1937), Premnu Moti Ane Bija Natako (1937), Sita (1943), Mazamrat (Dark Mindnight, 1955), Hololika (1956, published 1957) and Savitri- a dramatization of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. Hololika, written in format of Bhavai, a traditional Gujarati theatre form, is a satire on the corrupt judicial system. He also published following plays: Shikharini (1946), Panjarapol (1947), Mena Popat Athva Hathighoda (1951), Rangbhandar (1953), Sonavatakdi (1955), Madira (Media) (1955), Kishor Natako Part 1-2 (1956), Kapoorno Deevo (1960), Param Maheshwar (1960), Sati (1960), Karoliyanu Jalu (1961), Shakuntala Athva Kanyaviday (1966), Andar Andar (1969), Abola Rani (1972), Santakukadi (1972), Chandravadan Mehtana Pratinidhi Ekankio (1974), Antar-Bahir Ane Bija Natako (1975). He translated Cervantes's Don Quixote into Gujarati. ==Legacy==
Legacy
In 1960, at Vienna Conference at the International Theatre Institute under the aegis of UNESCO, he moved a resolution to celebrate 27 March, as the World Theatre Day. Gujarati writer Raghuveer Chaudhari wrote a play, Trijo Purush, based on his life. ==Awards==
Awards
He received the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1936 and the Narmad Suvarna Chandrak in 1942. He rejected the Kumar Chandrak awarded to him in 1950. In 1962, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. He was also awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award for playwriting in Gujarati in 1971. In 1984, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, the highest honour conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi. He received Sahitya Gaurav Puraskar for the year 1991. ==See also==
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