Imitating famous Charlie Chaplin, Khan spreading laughter on faces of corona depressed people.

PESHAWAR -- Donning black blazer and a matching bowler hat, a Peshawar's youth is spreading laughter onto the faces of hundreds of thousands of people passing through the phase of corona depression by imitating world famous comedian, Charlie Chaplin in public and uploading videos on Tiptop.

Usman Khan, a young boy from Gulbahar area, has gain popularity on social media within a period of less than two months because of his ditto copying comedy acting of Charlie Chaplin.

Within a period of 45 days that Usman started uploading his videos on Tiptop platform of social media and attracted following by 7,60,000 (0.76 million) people from across the globe.

Each of his videos drew following of hundreds of thousands of people along with comments admiring the effort and performance. His videos on Youtube are titled as `Pakistani Charlie'.

'Charlie Chaplin was a world renowned comedian of silent movies and imitating of his acting has also make me popular on social media,' comments Usman while talking with reporter.

I have natural instinct of performing as comedian and from the very childhood I used to share jokes and comic with family members and friends, informs Usman. Being a comedy lover, I also used to watch videos of Charlie Chaplin and liked his acting.

Usman also have a similarity with Charlie Chaplin of being poor and hardworking. According to Wikipedia, Charli Chaplin childhood in London was in poverty and hardship.

While Usman has same story as he sells children toys as vendor in Peshawar Saddar bazar and is hard working too because of concentrating on his hobby of performing comedy besides making both ends meet.

'The objective behind performing like Charlie Chaplin is to spread laughter on faces of people who are presently passing through the phase of depression because of prevailing pandemic of corona virus,' Usman told reporter.

The people of our region, he continued...

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