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      • In the play Final Solutions, Dattani represents the three female characters – Hardika, Smita and Aruna. He adopts an innovative narrative technique and the major dramatic events float through the consciousness of Hardika, the grandmother in Gandhian family.
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  2. Angelie Multani in her essay, “Forgiveness is the Only Final Solution: A Reading of the Play‘Final Solutions’ by Mahesh Dattani” observes how the young ones transgress the circumference of the residence and the chauvinistic beliefs and how they lapse to a good-humored innocence and splatter each other with the water. Pollution and ...

  3. In Final Solutions, Dattani projects multilevel stage to represent multiple layers of context involved in the issue of communal violence. In Daksha’s reflections and recollections of Diaries, Dattani exposes inner world of individuals encountering tensions and conflicts of personal relationships.

  4. ‘Final Solutions’ is a play by Mahesh Dattani. It got him the Sahithya Akademi Award in 1998, making him the first Indian playwright to win the prestigious award. It is a commentary on socio-religious politics in India, with several layers of meaning embedded in the dialogues.

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    The play Final Solutionsopens with Daksha (or Hardika), a newly married girl, writing her diary (on March 31, 1948). In the diary, she writes about her experience in her new house. She is not of good opinions regarding her in-laws. Though India had gained independence, yet she is imprisoned within the four walls of the house. She has a good taste f...

    Aruna asks Smita how she knows both of them. Smita tells that Javed is the brother of Tasneem and Bobby is her fianc�e. When Ramanik and Aruna start insulting Smita for knowing them Smita defends herself boldly by saying, there�s no harm in that. It is also revealed that Javed does not live with his parents. Ramanik then asks how he can meet his si...

    Ramanik starts asking Javed about his involvement in terrorism in a teasing manner. Javed becomes furious and yells hot words. Ramanik angrily slaps Javed and Bobby rushes to calm them down. Bobby then tells when they were young, Javed happened to touch a letter of his Hindu neighbour who abused the former badly. Javed got angry and after some days...

  5. Feb 28, 2015 · 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.

  6. Dattani's Final Solutions is a brave attempt at portraying communal conflicts in India. The play examines the liberal attitude of communalism. He is successful in handling such a burning social issue.

  7. Jan 1, 2009 · This volume carries not only the complete and unabridged text of Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions but also a close critical study of its defining characteristics. These include the play’s themes and concerns, characters and structure, motifs and techniques, and other literary tropes and stage props.