He wrote the scripts of several Gujarati films, including Hast Melap, Jesal Toral, Ghunghat, Raja Bharathari, Hothal Padamani and Valo Namori.
While in school, he wrote dialogue for dramas using quotes from Sanskrit Puranas, English plays and classic Gujarati books.
With the help of Mansukh Joshi, he joined the Indian National Theatre, a drama institute there, with a monthly salary of 100 rupees.
In 1969, he wrote a few scenes for the Gujarati film Hasta Melap when its writer Chaturbhuj Doshi, who was ill, was impressed and made him scriptwriter.
He played a comedian in Ravindra Dave's film Jesal Toral (1971), when their actor-comedian Krishnakant had to drop out due to an accident.