Starting at the young age, he rose to fame for his roles of female impersonator in early Gujarati plays.

[5] He started his career by joining Dadabhai Thunthi's Urdu performing art company in Calcutta in 1897.

[3][4] He played role of Desdemona as a female impersonator in Saubhagya Sundari, an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello by Parsi theatre in Bombay.

[7][8] He performed female lead opposite Bapulal Nayak several times including in Jugal Jugari (Jugal the Gambler), Kamlata (Lovestruck Girl, 1904), Madhu Bansari (Sweet Flute) and Sneh Sarita (River of Affection), Vikrama Charitra (Vikrama's Life, 1902).

He joined Gujarat Vidhya Sabha in 1948 in Ahmedabad to perform in Ramanbhai Neelkanth's Raino Parvat in 1950 on the occasion of its centenary.

Later he organised a performing troupe and theatre school, Natmandal with Rasiklal Parikh and Ganesh Mavlankar.

He revived Bhavai, the traditional performing art form, by directing Mithyabhiman (False Vanity, 1955), a satirical play by Dalpatram.

He trained several actors including Jaswant Thaker, Dina Pathak, Pransukh Nayak and Kailash Pandya.

[3][4] He received the Ranjitram Suvarna Chandrak in 1951; which is considered the highest literary award in Gujarati literature.