However, the film failed to be a success. He also acted in the movie as Lord Lakshmana. in 1936 and wrote the screenplay for a movie named Sati Sulochana (सती सुलोचना).
In 1934, Shirwadkar obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Marathi and English languages, from the H.
In the same year, his first collection of poems, Jeevanlahari (जीवन लहरी) was published. In 1933, Shirwadkar established the Dhruv Mandal (ध्रुव मंडळ ) and started writing in a newspaper called Nava Manu (नवा मनू). In 1932, at the age of 20, Shirwadkar participated in a satyagraha to support the demand for allowing the entry of the untouchables in the Kalaram Temple at Nashik.
College in Nashik, his poems were published in the Ratnakar (रत्नाकर) magazine. In 1944, he married Manorama (née Gangubai Sonawni). He passed matriculation from Mumbai University. He pursued his primary education in Pimpalgaon and high school education in the New English School of Nashik, which is now called J.S. He later adopted the sobriquet ‘Kusumagraj’. Upon being adopted, his named was changed to Vishnu Waman Shirwadkar. He was born in Pune on 27 February 1912 as Gajanan Ranganath Shirwadkar. He was the recipient of several State awards, and National awards including the 1974 Sahitya Akademi Award in Marathi for Natsamrat, Padma Bhushan (1991) and the Jnanpith Award in 1987 he also remained chairperson of the Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in His works like the Vishakha (1942), a collection of lyrics, inspired a generation into the Indian freedom movement, and is today considered one of the masterpieces of Indian literature., apart from his play, Natsamrat which has important place in Marathi literature. Vishnu Vāman Shirwādkar (27 February 1912 – 10 March 1999), popularly known by his pen name, Kusumāgraj, was an eminent Marathi poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, apart from being a humanist, who wrote of freedom, justice and emancipation of the deprived, In a career spanning five decades starting in pre-independence era, he wrote 16 volumes of poems, three novels, eight volumes of short stories, seven volumes of essays, 18 plays and six one-act plays.
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