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Mahesh Dattani

Author of Collected Plays, Vol. 1

19+ Works 84 Members 2 Reviews

Works by Mahesh Dattani

Associated Works

Yaraana: Gay Writing from India (1999) — Contributor — 29 copies
Yaraana: Gay Writing from South Asia (1999) — Contributor — 20 copies

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Birthdate
1958-08-07
Gender
male
Education
St. Joseph's College, Bangalore
Occupations
director
screenwriter
Short biography
An Indian playwright, stage director, screen writer, and filmmaker. He writes exclusively in English about marginalized populations and contemporary social boundaries. He is the first playwright writing in English to win India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award. His landmark queer scripts include On a Muggy Night in Mumbai and Seven Steps Around the Fire.
Nationality
India
Birthplace
Bangalore, India
Associated Place (for map)
Bangalore, India

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2 reviews
This book is about the hindu family in Gujarat who save 2 boys from Muslim community and are under threat to be skinned alive if they don't hand over the Muslims boys to the hindu rioter, and those boys are Friends with the girl whom house they shelter in and one guy love that girl is the brother of her best friend and other guy is her best friend fiance. She got scolded for that her friendship with Muslims guys and she take a full stand against that comments we see the bitterness in the show more both communities and there responses and author show the true face of the society to us in a way we understand best. But ending show that there is not perfect solution to end this communal hatred but there is hope coming generation may able to vanish this thing finally in the coming years. As in the ending we see all three young members were enjoying the water shower on each other and all there is love between boy of Muslim community and girl of hindu family is the difference they have to cross to become one in this life. show less
I think Final Solutions is Dattani's most poignant work, unfortunately also the most underplayed.

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Works
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Rating
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ISBNs
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