A Short Introduction to Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solution

by Sujoy Barman

This is a reference e-book on Final Solution, a play by Mahesh Dattani. The Final Solutions is one of the best plays of Mahesh Dattani. It is the titled play of the book that won the prestigious award, the Sahitya Academy, in 1998. The play was first performed at Guru Nanak Bhavan, Bangalore, on 10th July 1993. The play is based on the subject of communal riot between Hindu and Muslims in the post-independent India. In this play, Mahesh Dattani attempts to show some solutions to stop the riot though it seems that there is no solution to stop communal riot in India. The Final Solutions is a play about the three generations of a Gandhi family, and their different relations with Muslim society. Mahesh Dattani is a skilled theatre artist, and here he has very craftily used the theatre to present his play, Final Solutions. Most of the action of this play takes in the house of Ramnik Gandhi and in the street. The play is divided into three acts, and Mahesh Dattani here mingles past and present incidents, and the sequence of the play moves from past to present, and then present to past. It is Daksha and her diary through whom the audience is migrated to the past from the present.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 26, 2023