3. Waiting for Godot
• Play
• Samuel Beckett
• 1953
• Major characters –
Vladimir and
Estragon.
Waiting
• Film
• Anu Menon
• 2015
• Major characters –
Tara and Shiv.
4. • Characters and their unlikely
friendship
• Repetition of Daily Routine
• Hope
• Unanswered Questions
7. • Act 1 similar to Act 2
• For example –
Leaves on tree in
Act2.
• Leaves can be read
as routine. Nature
do not care whether
you are happy or
unhappy.
• According to
existentialists,
Nature ahs nothing
to do with our life.
• In the film, Shiv
explains Tara how
one can follow the
daily routine to
move on in life….
• Shiv and Tara are
on different stages
of grief, but their
predicament is
similar.
8. • One of the pioneer of Existentialism.
• According to him, there two ways to deal
with the disappointment in life.
9. • Boy – “Godot will
not come today.
He will surely
come tomorrow.”
10. • In the Play,
i. Who is Godot?
ii. Will he ever
come?
iii. Where to go?
iv. Why are we
waiting for Godot?
• In the film,
i. When will the
loved ones
recover?
ii. Will Shiv’s wife
ever get back to
normal life?
iii. Will Tara’s
husband get
better?
iv. Where they can
go ?
11. • In both the film, the
answer of these
questions is to wait…..
• Be hopeful while you
wait…..
12. • Waiting is something we all do in our life.
• Waiting can be anything and it can be for
anyone.
• “Ceaseless Waiting’ is the theme of
everyone’s life.
• We can do something while we wait.
• If we won’t do anything while we wait….
Then this ceaseless waiting will never end.