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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Mahesh Dattani’s play ’’Dance Like a Man’’ opens with a young dancer‚ Lata‚ bringing her fiance‚ Viswas‚ home to meet her parents. Their hopes‚ and the family histories that emerge from their conversation‚ are quietly amusing‚ and the missteps and misunderstandings that trip up everyone when Lata’s parents return to the house are very funny. It is also somehow reassuring to know that families on the other side of the globe are as fractious and occasionally dysfunctional as our own. But be wary.
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Dance like a Man! “ ...‚ dance like no one is watching.” --- Satchel Paige. But the truth is people do watch and make one dance. Dance like a man by Mahesh Dattani‚ deals with the dogma of being a man in the forties of indian society. Though the story revolves around the a dancer couple and their family‚ but at the emotions of the play lies in the emotional and social dance. Jairaj did dance to the tune of his father‚ his dancer and intelligent wife and to the tune of this society. "Oh! He
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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 mob in the
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shades of 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
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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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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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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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ceremonious poem on an occasion of public or private dignity in which personal emotion and general meditation are united. The Greek word ōdē‚ which has been accepted in most modern European languages‚ meant a choric song‚ usually accompanied by a dance. Alcman (7th century bc) originated the strophic arrangement of the ode‚ which is a rhythmic system composed of two or more lines repeated as a unit; and Stesichorus (7th–6th centuries bc) invented the triadic‚ or three-part‚ structure (strophic lines
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