Career
His play Aag Garhi (Fire Engine), about an ailing fireman, marked the rise of amateur theatre movement in Gujarati theatre. Mehta went to write over 25 plays, numerous one act plays and radio plays. Then in 1970, he himself translated his most known work, Aag Garhi as Iron Road.
In 1984, he was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship the highest honour conferred by the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Chandravadan Mehta was born on April 6, 1901 in Surat. His primary education was in Vadodara and secondary education in Surat.
In 1960, at Vienna Conference at the International Theatre Institute under the aegis of Unesco, he moved a resolution to celebrate March 27, as World Theatre Day. A play based on his life, Trijo Purush was written by Raghuveer Chaudhari.