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I am Hinaba Sarvaiya Student at MKbhavnagar University. In this blog is my thinking Activity task given by miss. Vaidehi ma'am. This blog based on most famous Indian Playwright Mahesh Dattani. His Famous play is Final Solution.
About Author:-
Mahesh Dattani, born in Bangalore on 7 August 1958, studied in Baldwin's high School and St. Joseph's College of arts and science, Banglore.
He has worked as a copywriter in an advertising firm and subsequently with his father in the family business. His theatre group playpen was formed in 1984, and he has directed several plays for them, ranging frome in classical Greek to contemporary works. In 1986, he wrote his first full length play,Where There's a Will, and from 1995, he has been working full time in theatre. In 1998, he set up his own theatre studied dedicating and stage writing, the first in the country to focus on new works specifically.
In 1998, Dattani won the Sahitya Akademi award for his book of plays, Final Solutions and Other Plays. Published by East West Books, Chennai, this becoming the Frist English language Playwright to win the award.
Mahesh Dattani-Final Solutions:-
Mahesh Dattani remains one of the best and serious contemporary playwrights in Indian English Drama. He touches various aspects of Indian raises and society through his plays. Final Solutions is one of his plays that brought him "Academia Award" and it is a very meaningful play. It is first profound in Bangalore in 1993 and contains three acts. The play deals deeply with the issue of the historical past and lays its accolade in acknowledging the similarity of two religions and respecting their differences. In the present paper, a literature review made below to find out the critical articles and researches around Dattani’s Final Solutions.
Final Solutions is a play about communal riots in India and subordination of women who belong to three significant times in the history of India. Daksha/ Hardika belongs to three pre-independence period: Aruna, her daughter in law, belongs to independence period; and Smita Aruna’s daughter, is a contemporary, post independence Indian woman. Final Solutions discuses the conflict between two communal parties, how the Indian society treats woman as subordinate and keeps her in shadow without accepting any contribution from her. The play deals with three generations of woman; the first character (Daksha as Hardika) lived in pre- independence period while her daughter in law (Aruna) lived in independence period and (Smita) lived in post- independence period that represent the educated and contemporary girl.
What is the significance of the subtitle "The Final Solutions?
The play Final Solutions, written by Mahesh K. Dattani discusses the theme of communal riots, hatred and bitterness of Hindus and Muslims against each other. The plot is set in Gujarat (after the 2002 Riots). The communal hatred is at peak. It can be seen when we find Hindu mob chasing Javed and Bobby after knowing that they are Muslims.
Next, we also come to know other complex stories like love affair of Smita (who is a Hindu) and Bobby, Javed’s story of adopting extremist way, Ramanik’s grabbing of Javed’s land (after burning his shop) etc.
We find that Ramanik blames Javed and his community and vice versa. But deep inside, Ramanik’s conscience does not allow him to live in peace because of the sin which he committed in the past.
There is another issue which is discussed in the play. It is the orthodoxy which is inherited among the believers of every religion. They consider people from other communities as untouchables. Aruna’s denying Bobby and Javed from spending night at their home depicts this.
So, throughout the play, we find ample of problems and the playwright has not given any solution. Instead, he has let the audience to decide. Hence, the final solutions are, in real, no solutions to these communal problems. We people need to know what makes us hate others.
Do you think Mahesh Dattani’s “The Final Solutions” makes any significant changes in society?
Yes, Dattani’s plays always use the family as a central trope. He draws attention to the relationships within the families, and extended families, including friends, neighbours etc. He also highlights the generational gap between the old people and the youth.
Dattani's intention of presenting the burning issues in the present world is reflected through the journey of daksh's diary in the play. Many changes are made in society through his play.
How are the beginning and the end of the movie? Do you feel the effect of communal disturbance in the movie?
Yes, we can see the beginning and end of the movie . We can feel the effect of communal disturbance in movies like, The play opens with a kind of flashback scene. In this scene we see and hear a fifteen year-old bride Daksha reading out what she had written in her diary. This flashback goes back to the late 1940. Here we simultaneously see and hear Daksha as she has passed nearly fifty years. In the present she is the grandmother known by the name Hardika.
They were carrying sticks with a Hindu and Muslim mask at either end. These masks cover the faces of the members of the mob as they assume the Muslim and Hindu identities or faces alternatively throughout the action of the play. Daksha’s reminiscence over the mob wearing Hindu masks introduces the theme of communal tensions as they speak of the overturning of a chariot carrying images of Hindu Gods and of a knifing of a pujari.
At the end of the play, the action is pathetic indeed. Here Daksha saw the dark facet of Zarine and her family. However, Daksha’s family’s behaviour was responsible for the outrage and emotional pang of Zarine’s family. Actually this attitudinal difference leads to the ultimate disharmony of the characters and cycles of hatred and violence.
The movie comes up with many different symbols and colors. Write about any two symbols which caught your attention. What does it signify?
In Final Solutions, Dattani’s use of diary draws attention to his brilliant conflation of Daksha and Hardika, as well as past and present of the Indian Nation. At the end of the play, Hardika’s actual hatred of Muslims and Daksha’s complete confinement in the room are two important growing issues in the plot that are linked very wisely. Dattani’s intention of presenting the burning issue in the present world is reflected through the journey of Daksha’s diary in the play. Dattani's diary of using two actors consecutively represents one character.
In this text identity is very much shaped by memory and trauma. This identity is of the Indians in particular, yet universal in appeal. It probes into an individual’s position in the wider historical and social context. At the outset Daksha’s pondering over a day in 1948 brilliantly fuses time past and time present .
Mahesh Datttani’s Final Solutions is a play about communal riots in India and subordination of women. It presents three women who belong to three significant times in the history of India-Daksha/Hardika belong to pre-independence period; Aruna, her daughter-in-law, belongs to independence period; Smita, Aruna’s daughter is a contemporary post-independence Indian woman.
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