Lilavati Munshi

[3] In the 1950s, she founded the Society for the Prevention of Unhealthy Trends in Motion Pictures in Bombay.

In 1954, she moved a resolution to prohibit screening of 'undesirable' films and obscene scenes, which was adopted by the House following which the government amended the Cinematograph Act in 1959.

Kissing scenes were not uncommon in Indian films till the 1950s; it was largely due to her movement that they vanished.

Rekhachitro ane Bija Lekho, a collection of character sketches, was published in 1925.

It consists of character sketches of mythical, historical and literary personalities and of contemporary men and women, mostly Gujaratis.