TELLYKAZAM:- Mr. Bean


Mr Bean, a show that was the limelight of every millennial kid' childhood. It was just the first day of 1990 when it all began, television sets in the United Kingdom showed a man falling from the sky in a beam of light onto a deserted London street. In, India though it came a bit late in the early 2000s it still did the job, back then little did we know that this silent comedy would fill the missing links into our lives at the end of a hectic day.

Mr Ian Bean played by the legendary actor Rowan Atkinson has been the earliest exposure to silent comedy and dry humour to me as a kid and I guess to many other people out there. Though as a kid we do not understand dry humour or are not capable to match the level of understanding with that of a silent comedy but Mr. Bean the series in itself had a different aura it bonded people of all age groups made sure they get glued to their television sets every Saturday evening at 7:30 for a minimum of half an hour just to watch how a man falls from 4th floor and stays intact, how someone can roam atop his mini cooper with his beloved friend *teddy* across the streets of London. This all just portrayed that Mr Bean had his own turmoil after all he was a patient of autism and in fact, Rowan Atkinson in reel and real life has never tried to hide his autism and holds himself with utmost confidence everywhere every time. Mr Bean also gave us a few important lessons in life that you can be simple yet awesome and the most important lesson that everybody should understand is if you want to make people laugh one need not be vulgar, be simple, be natural and be who you are, that's more than enough. As a die-hard fan of this TV series, Mr Bean did the impossible possible by just making the audience laugh by simple facial expressions and no dialogues. 

For me personally, Rowan Atkinson will always be the person who played Mr Bean on a Saturday evening at 7:30 though having 50 acting credits to his name.

By
Rtr. Jyotirmay Chitale
Rotaract Club of South Indian Education Society, Nerul

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