(1901). Their pair continued till 1932. Prabhashankar 'Ramani' acted in several plays and also rose to fame. The company also travelled Karachi in 1905-06 where they was attacked by goons as well as a rumour of abduction of Sundari was circulated. Music director Vadilal Shivram Nayak composed scores of more than 500 songs in about forty plays. About hundred of these were published in Gujaratna Natak-Geetoni Sargam (Notations to Songs in Gujarati Plays, 1956). Nayak wrote Nand-Batrisi (1906), Chandrabhaga (1909), a farce entitled Navalsha Hirji (1909), Anandlahari (1919) and Saubhagya-no Sinh (1925). When Mulani's three plays failed consequently, the company chose to stage nationalistic plays written by Nrisinh Vibhakar. These plays experimented with story and themes as well as focused on contemporary subjects instead of taking inspirations from popular subjects such as mythology. But their enactment stayed unchanged. His Snehsarita (River of Affection, 1915) had a lead character of a woman participating in the Indian independence movement. His another Sudhachandra (Sudha and Chandra, 1915) focused on swaraj (self-rule) and Madhubansari (Sweet Flute, 1917) focused on home-rule movement. Madhubansari ran successfully for two years due to great direction, fine acting and music. The Gaiety Theatre — now Capitol Cinema — owned by the company from 1893, was filled with spectators for these plays. Decline (1922–1939) Bapulal Nayak acquired the company in April 1922. He started directing his plays and started adapting literature into plays. He produced Ramanbhai Neelkanth's play Raino Parvat (Mustard-seed to Mountain) in 1926. The songs of the play were written by Rasiklal Parikh and four shows of it were staged. Later he staged four plays written by Champshi Udeshi, four plays written by Gajendrashankar Pandya as well as many Parsi theatre styled plays. Gajendrashankar Pandya's play College Kanya (College Girl, 1925) starred popular actors Pransukh Nayak and Chhagan Romeo as comedians and it created controversy due to some of its dialogue about females; Narsinhrao Divetia, Chandravadan Mehta and Hansa Jivraj Mehta led the public protests against the play. The company suffered due to internal squabbling and jealousy. Mulani had left the company. After death of Dayashankar Girnara, Sorabji Katrak was brought in as a new director. Bapulal highlighted his directorial mistakes so the owners of the company established a separate Mumbai Urdu Natak Mandali which was closed down after a year and Katrak had to leave. The owner Maganlal and Chhotalal were focused on profits only. Bapulal wanted