Question

Summery of Final solution by Mahesh Dattani​

Answer 1

The play Final Solutions opens 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 good taste for the songs of Shamshad Begum, Noor Jahan etc. She even wanted to become a singer like them but due to the family restrictions, her desires remain unfulfilled. She got a chance to visit a Muslim girl Zarine, who also had a great taste for the songs of Noor Jahan and Shamshad Begum. In a course of time, they became best friends.


The scene now shifts to the present (in a town of Gujarat) and she is an old woman now. An idol of Hindu God is broken down. There are rumours that it is broken down purposely by Muslims and thus due to the tension between Hindus and Muslims, Slogans by mobs of both the communities are heard alternatively. Smita (granddaughter of Hardika) is talking on the phone to the family of her friend Tasneem as Tasneem has just called and told her (Smita) and probably her own family as well that some bomb has blasted in her hostel.

Smita’s father Ramanik (son of Hardika) takes the phone from her daughter and assures the safety of Tasneem to her family and ends the call. As there is quite a tension outside, Hardika advises her daughter-in-law, Aruna (Smita’s mother) to properly check doors and windows as the dogs have been let loose. Meanwhile, Javed and Bobby, two Muslim boys are in some argument on the side of the road in a nearby area. Suddenly some Hindu men come and start asking them questions and also search them.

Finding a scull-cap in the pocket of Bobby, they at once recognise them as Muslims. As they try to kill them, Javed and Bobby run away and the mob chases them. They reach the door of Ramanik’s house and start knocking at it. Ramanik, at last, opens the door. They at once rush in and lock the door. They plead Ramanik to save their life.

Answer 2

1.In Final Solutions, Mashesh Dattani describes the female characters of Hardika, Smita and Aruna. They realizes that women are not a shadow of male. Today women are more superior than males. They have a better understanding of realization of identity both inside and outside the family.

2.The dramatic conflicts and develops chaos when, Hardika whose consciousness remains rooted in the horrible events of partition that took place forty years back. The drama starts between 31st March 1948 when Hardika, the grandmother was 14years old who was known as Daksha told about women battles and struggles. On other hand, Smita hears the rumours of bombing the Muslim Hostel where her Muslim friend Tasneem live. Smita, Gandhi’s daughter talks to Tasneemhwr friend) whose hostel was the centre of blast. Smita, a girl of liberal ideology constructs an ideology beyond the ideology of religious and racial practices.

3.Women like Hardika, Smita and Aruna even in their feminine grace and silence are the carrier and oppressors. It shows women are strong enough to think beyond their physical conscience on the matter like communal violence.As the anger of these three women tells about women violence, Dattani tells that at mental level women are more close to communal and religious identities and they have certain deeper realization of the humiliations done in the name of religious fanaticism.