 Vishnudas Bhave was an extremely gifted scholar - playwright, director and able organiser.A drama school was also set up in Sangli.Vishnudas Bhave came to Mumbai in 1853 and in the beginning he staged his "Khel-Akhyan" (play-narrations in verse) and plays in the wada of Shri Vishvanath Shimpi in the Girgaum locality of the city.