Chaplinesque in characters with reference to Waiting for Godot, resembling Charlie Chaplin, Chaplinesque in Vladimir and Estragon, Chaplinesque in Bollywood films

1. Chaplinesque in
Characters
Hema Goswami
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Paper no. 9- The Modernist Literature
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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>.