Nadiad and met Dwivedi where he apologised, took him to Bombay, gave a diamond ring as well as requested him to write another play for rupees 400 to 500. Dwivedi did not accept the ring but agreed to write another play Nrusinhavatar for him. The new play was staged on 18 February 1899 but failed commercially because the director and lead actor were Parsis. Under Girnara, the company excelled and brought many gifted actors and visionary directors as well as reputed playwrights, including some from literary circles. In the 1890s, Mulshankar Mulani was a major playwright who wrote several plays based on history and mythology. Bapulal Nayak was the leading actor of the company then. Shankuntal (1889) and Rajbeej (King's Progeny, 1891) were successful productions. Kundbala (1892) depicted a relationship between a princely state and the British Raj. Following it, the censorship by the British authorities was instituted. It was followed by hit plays Mularaj Solanki (1895) and Karanghelo (1896, based on Nandshankar Mehta's Karanghelo). Barrister (1897) was about a youth who was devastated due to his attraction to the western world. Bapulal Nayak was also involved in stage planning and the management of a theatre company. In 1899, he and Mulani became partners in the company, each holding a 6% share of the company. Jayraj (1898) and Ajabkumari (1899) were not initially successful, due to the occurrence of a plague in Bombay. They became hits when they were performed again in 1912–13. Although the financial condition of the company had deteriorated, Vikramcharitra (1900), based on Shamal Bhatt's Sinhasan Batrisi, became a commercial hit and helped the company recover. Feeling hurt because of not receiving his previously agreed sum, Mulani left the company. Mulani returned to the company and rewrote Saubhagya Sundari (1901), an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello. The company introduced Jaishankar Bhojak, then aged 12, in 1901, who mainly performed as a female impersonator as females were not allowed in theatres in those times. He played the role of Desdemona as a female impersonator in Saubhagya Sundari, opposite Bapulal Nayak. The play was successful and Jayshankar received his sobriquet, Sundari ('pretty woman'), for the lifetime. The pair soon rose to fame and acted together in several successful plays including in Jugal Jugari (Jugal the Gambler, 1902), Kamlata (Lovestruck Girl, 1904), Madhu Bansari (Sweet Flute, 1917) and Sneh Sarita (River of Affection, 1915), Vikrama Charitra (Vikrama's Life, 1902), Dage Hasrat