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Samooh Theatre stages play ‘Final Solutions’

KT NEWS SERVICE. Dated: 6/18/2018 9:35:14 AM

JAMMU, Jun 17: The Samooh Theatre staged Mahesh Dattani’s award winning play “Final Solutions”.
In Theatre festival here at Chandigarh organized by North Zone Culture center Patiala . The English Play has been adapted in Hindustani and directed by Ravinder Sharma.
On the occasion, Prof. Saubhagya Vardhan, Director North Zone Culture center welcomed the audience and also also anchored the whole programme himself in his address he said that the festival to be hold in other state also by including one or two other local plays from the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
Prof NavDeep Kour, Chairman Department of Indian Theatre, Punjab university , Chandigarh was the chief guest while while Kamal Arora , chairman Sangeet Natak Academi , Chandigarh presided over.
"Final Solutions" has a powerful contemporary resonance and it addresses an 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 candor of 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 moralized, as the demons of communal hatred are located not out in 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 Hindu 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 Sharma, 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 Sanskar and the granddaughter, Smeeta, 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 judgments 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.
The actors who performed in play were Suneedhi Sharma as Daksha, Nikita Abrol as Hardika, Pallavi Jamwal as Aruna, Aashima Dutta as Smeeta, Ravinder Sharma as Ramnik, Chetan Charak as Bobby and Sandeep Thakur as Javed.
The main highlight of the play was its chorus who maintained the tempo of the play throughout. Their movements, formations and speech made play more interesting.
The members of chorus were Samdhish, Shubham Singh, Abhishake Sharma, Anjali Sharma, Disha Bhagat, Tarun Charak, Nainsi and Rohan Sharma.