This blog is response to thinking activity about Final Solution . which is given as a task by Vaidehi Hariyani Ma'am. as an activity she has given us several questions realted this unit. here i have wrote about it.
About Author:
Mahesh Dattani is an Indian director, actor, playwright and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions, Dance Like a Man, Bravely Fought the Queen, On a Muggy Night in Mumbai, Tara, Thirty Days in September and The Big Fat City. He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Mahesh Dattani was born in to Banglore to Gujrati parents. He went to Baldwin Boys High school and then went on to join St. Joseph college in Banglore.
Dattani is a graduate in History, Economics and Political Science. He completed his post-graduate in Marketing and Advertising Management because he wanted to become a Copywriter. He worked with the Bangalore Little Theatre, where his first role was in Utpal Dutt's Surya Shikhar.
After reading Edward Albee's play Who's afraid of virginia woolf? early in his life, he became interested in writing. He was also influenced by Gujarati playwright Madhu ry's Kumarni Agashi and developed an interest in play writing.
Playwrights
- Where There's a Will (1988)
- Dance Like a Man (1989)
- Bravely Fought the Queen (1991)
- Final Solutions (1993)
- Do The Needful
- On a Muggy Night in Mumbai (1998)
- Seven Circles Round The Fire (Radio play for BBC) (Seven Steps around the Fire) (1998)
- 30 Days in September (2001)
- The Girl Who Touched the Stars (2007)
- Brief Candle (2009)
- Where Did I Leave My Purdah (2012)
- The Big Fat City (2012)
About Final solution
Final Solutions was written and performed in 1993, a period of high tension and violence in urban
India. The play grew in specific context as Dattani responded to the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992.
Dattani‟s
social consciousness led him to address the contemporary social issue of religious communalism to advocate
communal harmony. He tries to convey that there are no solutions to this problem except for that of acceptance
and empathy for each other.
Final Solutions opens with the image of five masked individuals dressed in black. Dattani has named
them as Mob/Chorus. Each member has two masks one is of Hindu and other of Muslim. They remain on the
top of a large crescent shaped ramp for most of the time in the play. Below the ramp is the home of Gandhis, a
middle class family, in present day, Amargaon, Gujarat. The Gandhi family comprises of the elderly surivivor of
the partition of India and Pakistan, Hardika, who was earlier known as Daksha, her son Ramnik, her daughter in
law, Aruna and her grand-daughter Smita. On another level of the stage is Daksha‟s room in 1948. Thus the play
is into three spaces one, the mob, two, the Gandhi family and three, the memory of Daksha. At various points
of time these three separate worlds interact and overlap with each other.
Final Solutions is situated with a long history as it deals with religious communalism, which is also one
of the the very important national concerns which have problematized the peace of nation for over a century.
questions:
1.What is the significance of subtitle the final solution?
First of all there is no final solution of communal riots. because as it is seen in the movie that Hindus are blamed by muslims and muslims were blamed by hindus. this play is also written when india get an independence there were communal riots.in this play the character of javed and bobby are killed by hindu corus.so there are some scenes in the movie by that we can observe that there is no final solution of communal riots.
to support this answer there is also one serial which is based on this idea Kyon Utthe Dil chhod Aaye which is broadcast on Sony TV here i linked that video.
2.Do you Think Mahesh Dattani's final solution make any significant change in society?
According to me not really because there is same situation which was before. there was no change in the Behviour of people . it is shown in the movie that cap is symbol of religion. now a days it is also happened. There is some ads was made in today's time but behaviour of people has not change.
3.The movie came up with diffrent symbols and colours write about two symbols which caught your attention what does it signifies?
The movie has many symbols like Diary of Daksha, cap, Masks and many others are there.
Caps:
in the movie there is caps. caps are used as a religion symbols because if you are muslim you have to wear a cap by the cap the people identify you are belong to muslim community.
Masks:
we have two types of masks hindu and muslims the masks put us in particular religion, identity and also it suggest that from which caste are you belonging.
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