From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search Mahesh Dattani Born 7 August 1958 (age 54) Bangalore‚ India Awards Sahitya Akademi award Website http://www.maheshdattani.com/ Mahesh Dattani (7 August 1958) is an Indian director‚ actor and writer. He wrote such plays as Final Solutions‚[1] Dance Like a Man‚ Bravely Fought the Queen‚ On a Muggy Night in Mumbai‚ Tara and 30 days in September[2][3] He is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi
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Introduction:- 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. The
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English 201 14 October 2013 A Portrayal Of Women Characters By Mahesh Dattani While thinking about writing a research paper on female characters under the context of Indian play wrighters‚ the mind suddenly striked with that glorious name of a writer who was the first Indian English playwright to win a Sahitya Akademi Award. It is not that the former writers are less significant but Mahesh Dattani reveals his genius through the representation of the suppressed invisible issues
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reality. The social perception and individual beliefs are more based on conjectures and half known facts and it leads to the distortion of reality. The blurring of the truth becomes all the more acute in critical situations like communal tension. Mahesh Dattani‚ a well known Indian English playwright raises doubts about the accepted social situations and individual stance in his play Final Solutions which is based of communal tension between Hindus and Muslims. Instead of highlighting this issue‚ the
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India gained Independence‚ people were jubilant; however‚ the moment of jubilation was associated with a horrible and ghastly experience of bloodshed that history has rarely witnessed. People‚ who had been living together for centuries‚ became blood thirsty and bitter enemies of one another‚ in the name of religion. The barbaric cruelty against the fellow human beings arouse communal sentiments‚ the venom of which is still not completely washed. Many people were rendered homeless‚ children became
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SOCIAL ISSUES AND ITS EFFECTS IN MAHESH DATTANI’S “TARA” Mahesh Dattani‚ the writer of the play Tara is an actor‚ playwright‚ dancer‚ director‚ teacher and screenplay writer. Dattani has won prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award for his play”Final Solutions” and that play deals with Communalism. Mahesh Dattani is a spokesman for all the marginalized people. The play “Tara” was first performed as “Twinkle Tara” at the Chowdiah Memorial Hall‚ Bangalore‚ on October 23‚ 1990. Tara is a play which exposes the
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The Guest Summary The Guest follows the story of Daru‚ who is a schoolteacher in a remote plateau region. The area has gone through a draught‚ but recently a blizzard has passed through‚ leaving everything covered in snow. This has kept away Daru’s pupils. The narrative opens as Daru watches two men approach his schoolhouse. He watches them climb the hill. One of the men‚ a gendarme named Balducci‚ is very familiar to Daru. He leads an Arab prisoner who has been accused of murdering his cousin
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Association Unifying the Sciences‚ Engineering‚ and Applied Research) The Marginalized Groups in Indian Social Construct: A Critical Study of Mahesh Dattani 1 Sanjiv Kumar‚ 2Dr. Prakash Bhadury Research Scholar‚ Kumaun University‚ Nainital‚ Uttarakhand ‚ India 2 Assistant Professor‚ NIT Hamirpur‚ Himanchal Pradesh‚ India 1 Abstract: Dattani is one of the prominent exponents of Indian drama in English (IDE)‚ especially with his contributions in the 90s India when the dram of roots has
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Andharia Darshangi’s Assignments Friday‚ 6 April 2012 Gender Discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s “Tara” Name: Darshangi Andharia Paper: E-c-202: Indian Writing in English Topic: Gender Discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s “Tara” SEM: 2‚ part 1 Year: 2011-2012 Submitted to‚
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Asmitatheatre | ------------------------------------------------- Top of FormBottom of Form | | Mahesh Dattani’s Final Solutions Final Solutionsby Mahesh Dattani Direction Arvind Gaur Translation Shahid Anwar MusicDr.Sangeeta Gaur Kavita Nagpal Hindustan TimesMahesh Dattani’s final solutions in its Hindustan avatar sound and look much better than it did in the original English. Translator Shahid Anwar and director Arvind Gaur have made major improvements – and not merely of the cosmetic
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