The Final Solution by Mahesh Dattani

 Have you seen any film adaptations ? Which is taken from any novel, story, play, drama etc. Well this is my fourth or fifth experience of watching a film adaptation. We have seen a film adaptation "The Final Solution" directed by Mahesh Dattani, which is based on his play "The Final Solution". This adaptation is available on the Zee5 app also. We had a screen of the play on 29 September, 2021. So let's discuss it more. 

"The Final Solution" is a play by Mahesh Dattani. Mahesh Dattani (born 7 August 1958) 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. To read more about Mahesh Dattani click here. Let's see a brief summary of the play. 

Final Solutions has taken the issues of the majority communities in different contexts and situations. It talks of the problems of cultural hegemony, how Hindus had to suffer at the hands of Muslim majority like the characters of Hardika/Daksha in Hussainabad. And how Muslims like Javed suffer in the set up of the majority Hindu community. This all resulted in communal riots and culminated in disruption of the normal social life, and thus hampered the progress of the nation. Here is the poster of film adaptation.

Now let's think about the question answers : 

Here are some questions to ponder upon. To know more about task visit teacher's blog, click here.

👉Does the movie help you to understand the narrative structure of the play?

Well, any adaptation helps us to understand the structure of the literary work, if they are truthful with the original work. In The Final Solution, we see the story is told by the perspective of Daksha in diary form. She wrote a diary and tells us what and how everything has happened. The other perspective is Javed. His experience and his story also shown in flashback mode. Bobby's story also shown different perspective. So this all Techniques are used in the play, which we understand better through screening of a film. 

👉What do you think about women’s situation during the time of communal riots? 

The situation of women during the time of communal riots very bad. Even in common situation it is not good. They don't have freedom of speech, not right to do what they wanted, and also they don't have right to choose her hobby. So slowly and steadily the situation is changing nowadays. In the movie and play we see that Daksha wanted to be a singer, but her father in law and mother in law denied to do so. Even she haven't right to listen songs also. 

👉Does the women characters like Daksha, Aruna etc. have helped you in understanding it.If you were the director of the movie, what kind of changes would you make in the movie. Does the movie do justice to the play? 

All women characters helps us to understand the play. If I was the director, I will end the play with solution. And all we know the solution is to be aware about what others says about other religions. We should not conclude any point without knowing everything about the matter. We have to see that we should not provoked by other peoples. 

So overall this adaptation is good and it helps us to understand the concept of the play by Mahesh Dattani. The play is also portrayed in a very interesting way, and also it presents the harsh reality of society. We have to be careful while watching and listening to those nusense. Because many times it's happened that we don't know anything, but we join the groups of those people who are violent and provoke us against other religions.