Mr. Slugworth - Prince Pondicherry

Prince Pondicherry is a prince who lives in India. He appears in the third chapter of the novel when Grandpa Joe is telling Charlie a story. In the story, Willy Wonka makes him a chocolate palace in India that melts because of the hot weather.

He is absent from the 1971 film version.

His name derives from the city of Pondicherry (officially spelled Puducherry since 2006) in southeastern India.

The Prince makes a brief appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, where he is played by Nitin Ganatra. He tells Wonka to build him a palace entirely out of chocolate, and Wonka assures him that it will be done. Despite India being a normally hot country, the construction of the palace saw no chocolate that was melted by the sun. The only molten chocolate in the construction was pre-melted by the construction workers.

Despite this, once Wonka completes the palace, he warns Pondicherry that he must start eating it straight away before the chocolate starts to melt. It is never exactly explained why he could make non-melting ice cream and not non-melting chocolate, unless there are certain issues with the formula. Clearly not a practical man, Prince Pondicherry ignores the advice and takes up residence in the palace (though he does eat one bite of the throne off).

Soon after, during "a very hot day with a boiling sun," Pondicherry is being fed chocolate by his princess when drops of melting chocolate begin to fall on the prince's head. The palace begins to fall apart, and the Prince and his lovely wife (played by Shelley Conn) escape unharmed but covered in chocolate, looking on at the melted palace, which is still seen falling down on itself. He then sends Wonka an urgent telegram requesting a new palace, but unfortunately Wonka has problems concerning industrial espionage in his factory and therefore cannot come.

This version follows closely to the version told in the book, but adds the Princess (who was never mentioned in the novel) and states that the Prince, who had been dozing, found himself immersed in a lake-sized pool of molten chocolate.