Final Solution is a play written by famous Indian writer Mahesh Dattani. The story of the play revolves around the life of Daksha, a recently married girl who sits in her house and writes down her life experiences and learnings.
Final Solutions By Mahesh Dattani
Summary of Final Solutions By Mahesh Dattani
The story of the drama begins with the main character Daksha, who is a recently married girl sitting in her house and writing her life experiences. She writes about her house and how her life has changed after marriage. Daksha writes in her diary that even though our country has gained independence there are still women in India who are not independent. This is because women are still not allowed to go out of the house. Daksha is not happy with her husband’s family because she wants to become a singer like Noor Jahan but she is not allowed to sing.
She is imprisoned in her husband’s house. There comes a new character, Zarin, a Muslim girl who is Daksha’s friend. Like Daksha, Zarin also loves the songs of Noor Jahan and Shamshad Begum. Daksha and Zarin have the same interest in music and they become good friends of each other. The story now moves forward 40 years. Daksha is an old woman who now lives in Gujarat and has a son named Ramnik. Daksha’s son Ramnik is married to a girl named Aruna. Ramnik and Aruna have a daughter named Smita. Someone has broken the idol of a Hindu god in Gujarat. There is a rumour that the idol of the Hindu god has been broken by a Muslim man.
Due to this, there is a lot of tension between the Hindu and Muslim community. Daksha’s granddaughter Smita is talking to her friend Tasneem on the phone. On the phone, Tasneem is telling Smita that someone has exploded a bomb in her hostel. Smita’s father Ramnik took the phone from her and started talking to Tasneem. He asked her about her well being and then disconnected the phone. Daksha called Aruna and requested her to close all the doors and windows of the house.
Now two new characters Javed and Bobby are introduced in the story. Javed and Bobby were arguing with each other and Hindu people came and started questioning them. Through interrogation, the Hindus found out that Javed and Bobby were Muslims. The Hindu gang tried to kill Javed and Bobby, but they managed to escape.
Javed and Bobby goes at Ramanik house by running from Hindus. They request Ramanik to save their life from Hindus. Thereafter, Hindus group goes at Ramanik’s house and demand Javed and Bobby from him. Ramanik doesn’t allow them to kill Javed and Bobby. Afterwards, angry Hindus starts throwing stones at Ramanik’s house.Aruna doesn’t like Muslim to be at her home.
Therefore, she request her husband, Ramanik to throw them out of their house. Ramanik yells at Aruna and tells her to be quiet. Ramanik started talking with Bobby and Javed politely. Bobby respond to his questions calmly but Javed talks with him harshly and rudely. At the same time, Ramanik’s daughter, Smita comes and immediately recognized Javed and Bobby.
When Aruna get to know that Smita knows who is Javed and Bobby. She asks Smita, how does she knows them. Smita tells Aruna that Javed is brother of her friend, Tasneem, and Bobby is a fiance of Tasneem.
The people outside of Ramanik’s house starts throwing stones at his house again. Ramanik still doesn’t care about them and gives milk to Javed and Bobby. Javed tells Ramanik that you guys are in majortiy and allowed to do whatever you want to with innocent people like us. Ramanik talks with Javed calmly and tries to understand him how the fight between Hindu and Muslim has started.
He tells him once upon a time, when Hindu Rath Yatra was carried out, the Muslim people threw stones at God’s chariot and they also killed Hindu Pandit. So that’s how fight between Hindu and Muslim has started. Smita brings pillow for Javed and Bobby and tells them our house is small so you guys need to sleep on a floor. Javed tells Smita, he has no problem in sleeping on floor as he is used to it.
Smita asks them what they were doing in her village, Amargaon, during such tension between Hindu and Muslim. Bobby tells Smita, they came here in search of a job opportunity. Ramanik decides to give job to Javed and Bobby in his clothing shop but his daughter, Smita tries to stop him. She tells him that Javed was hired by terrorist organization and that’s why his family thrown him out of their house. Thereafter, Ramanik starts teasing Javed, he asks Javed in which-which terrorist attacks he is involved in.
Javed feels very bad and starts abusing Ramanik. On the other side, Ramanik gets angry and slaps Javed. Bobby came between them and calms them both down. Bobby tells Ramanik, when Javed was a child he touched a letter of his Hindu neighbor by mistake. That Hindu neighbour yells at Javed in front of everyone just because he touched his letter.
Javed gets offended by his Hindu neighbour and ends up throwing beef at his home. Afterwards, Hindu neighbour comes at Javed’s home and abuses him in front of his family. Bobby tells that Javed talks rudely with people is because of a your community otherwise he was good and respected person of his village.
Thereafter, Javed and Bobby decides to go from Ramanik’s home but Ramanik stops them from going. He tells them that they have to work in his clothing shop otherwise he will call police. At the same time, Smita walks in and apologies to Javed for exposing him in front of her family. Aruna goes outside of her house to check and finds no one there. So she decides to go out for taking water. Smita asks her mother, Aruna to bring Bobby with her as he can help her in getting water. Aruna gets angry on Smita because she can’t take a Muslim help in getting water.
Afterwards, Aruna goes to take shower. Smita, Javed and Bobby goes out to bring water. As they go outside to bring water, we get to know that Smita is in love with Bobby but due to their different caste they can’t live together. Bobby, Javed and Smita were playing with each other with water outside their house. Smita’s grandmother, Daksha saw them playing and remebers her childhood friend, Zarine. Daksha goes to Bobby and Javed and tells them that her father was killed by a Muslim.
Daksha curses Javed and Bobby and goes away. Ramanik comes in and asks his mother to be quiet. When Aruna comes outside from washroom, she saw Bobby in Hindu’s temple, she asks him to go outside from ther temple. Bobby took Hindu god’s statue in his hands and talks about communal harmony. Thereafter, Bobby and Javed goes from Ramanik’s home.
As Javed and Bobby leaves Ramanik’s home, he tells his mother about his father and grand father, how they burned Zarine’s shop just to buy it on cheap price from them. Ramanik still regret about his father and grandfather’s doing, so he don’t want to go at this shop. The story of final solutions end without any solutions.
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