[Reader-list] Staging of Final Solutions

[anupam pachauri]

The Play Final Solutions at Hindu College,16th
sept,2005 at 11.15 am
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MAHESH DATTANI's FINAL SOLUTIONS
DIRECTED BY ARVIND GAUR
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Where :
Hindu College
University of Delhi

When :
September 16, 2005 @ 11.15 am

Translation by Shahid Anwar
Music By Dr.Sangeeta Gaur

AN ASMITA PRODUCTION
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On Stage

Hridika: Anupam Pachauri

Daksha(young Hridika):Sangeeta Das

Smita: Manisha

Ramnik: Girish Pal

Aruna: Amita Walia

Babban: Naresh Kabir

Javed: Susan Brar

Chorus:

Ajit Kr Mahato, Akhilesh Kr (Praveen), Vipin
Arora,Shailender Bisht, Sanjay,
Siddharth Dubey, Rohan Madhesia, Shamim Gandhi, Amit
Rana, Pushpraj Rawat,
Prageet Pandit, Rakesh Kumar, Rajesh Kr Sangwan,
Tanmay, Rajesh Mishra,
Sandeep Srivastava

Off Stage

Set Execution : Ajit Kr Mahato, Akhilesh Kr (Praveen),
Sandeep Srivastava,
Girish Pal
Property: Prageet Pandit, Pushpraj Rawat

Production Controller: Sandeep Srivastava

Brochure: Anupam Pachauri

Music: Dr. Sangeeta Gaur

Direction: Arvind Gaur


The Play was recently staged at the National Theatre
Festival organised by
Nehru Centre, Worli, Mumbai  on 29th Aug,05 &  also at
Paavas  Theatre
Festival, Patna on  10th sept 2005.


THE PLAY
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"Final Solutions" has a powerful contemporary
resonance as it addresses as
issue of utmost concern to our society, i.e. the issue
of communalism. The
play presents different shades of the communalist
attitude prevalent among
Hindus and Muslims in its attempt to underline the
stereotypes and clichés
influencing the collective sensibility of one
community against another.
What distinguishes this work from other plays written
on the subject is that
it is neither sentimental in its appeal nor simplified
in its approach. It
advances the objective candour or a social scientist
while presenting a
mosaic of diverse attitudes towards religious identity
that often plunges
the country into inhuman strife. Yet the issue is not
moralised, as the
demons of communal hatred are located not out on the
street but deep within
us.

The play moves from the partition to the present day
communal riots. It
probes into the religious bigotry by examining the
attitudes of three
generations of a middle-class Gujrati business family,
Hardika, the
grandmother, is obsessed with her father's murder
during the partition
turmoil and the betrayal by a Muslim friend, Zarine.
Her son, Ramnik Gandhi,
is haunted by the knowledge his fortunes were founded
on a shop of Zarine's
father, which was burnt down by his kinsmen.

Hardika's daughter-in-law, Aruna, lives by the strict
code of the Hindu
Samskar and the granddaughter, Smita, cannot allow
herself a relationship
with a Muslim boy. The pulls and counter-pulls of the
family are exposed
when two Muslim boys, Babban and Javed, seek shelter
in their house on being
chased by a baying Hindu mob. Babban is a moderate
while Javed is an
aggressive youth. After a nightlong exchange of
judgements and retorts
between the characters, tolerance and forgetfulness
emerge as the only
possible solution of the crisis. Thus, the play
becomes a timely reminder of
the conflicts raging not only in India but in other
parts of the world.




Anupam Pachauri


		
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