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Chaplinesque in characters with reference to Waiting for Godot
- 1. Chaplinesque in Characters Hema Goswami Sem 3 Paper no. 9- The Modernist Literature Submitted to Department of English MKBU Enrollment number- 2069108420180020 Roll no. 13 Email Id. hemagoswami474@gmail.com Year 2017-19
- 2. What is Chaplinesque? • Resembling or characteristics of the humour or the style of the film actor and director Charlie Chaplin.
- 3. Charlie Chaplin • Silent era • Doing a film with lot of physical comedy
- 4. Characters of “Waiting for Godot” Estragon -Estragon is helpless on his own.In beginning he struggles just to take off his boots. “But what Saturday? And is it Saturday? Is it not rather Sunday? (Pause.) Or Monday? (Pause.) Or Friday?” Vladimir -Vladimir seems to be more rational then his more nonsensical companion “Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.)Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed”
- 5. Chaplinesque in Vladimir and Estragon
- 6. Chaplinesque with or without Dialogues • Mr. BeanRanbir Kapoor in India’s Oscar entry film Barfi
- 7. Chaplinesque in Bollywood films • Shree 420 • Awaara • Mera nam Joker • Mr. India • Munna Bhai MBBS • Ajab Prem ki Gajab Kahani • Barfi • Sholay
- 8. Awaara(1951) • This was the first film in which Rajkapoor appeared as the Chaplinesque tramp • Raj kapoor is dressed as an American tramp.
- 9. Mr. India • Sri Devi’s take on Charlie Chaplin became one of the most memorable scene in the film Mr.India
- 10. Sholay (1975) • Asrani’s jailor characters got its inspiration from Chaplin’s comic version of Adolf Hitler
- 11. Ranbir Kapoor’s imitation in the film Ajab Prem ki Gajab Kahani and Barfi Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani
- 12. Motif behind the Chaplinesque Characteristics • To make audience laugh on its own situation. As Characters laugh on their own plight or suffering • To arise Comedy in Tragic situation( Tragi-comedy, chief characteristic of modern age)
- 13. Works Cited • sharma, Isha. Entertainment. 16 april 2016. <https://www.indiatimes.com/entertainment/vidya-balan-might-play- charlie-chaplin-in-her-next-+-4-times-bollywood-went-the-chaplin- way-235162.html>.