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Prince Pondicherry is a character in Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In the third chapter, Willy Wonka makes him a chocolate palace that melts, because of a hot sun (because they were in India, and everybody knows India has a hot sun).

The Prince in the 1971 film

The story of Pondicherry is absent from the 1971 musical version.

The Prince in the 2005 film

The Prince makes a brief appearance in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
, where he is played by Nitin Chandra Ganatra. He tells Wonka to build him a palace entirely out of chocolate, and Wonka assures him that it will be. But Wonka warns him to start eating it straight away, before the chocolate starts to melt. Prince Pondicherry claims that he doesn't want to eat it, but intends to live in the palace, ultimately ignoring Wonka's advice.

Soon after, during a very hot day with a boiling sun, drops of melting chocolate begin to fall on the prince's head. The palace begins to fall apart, and Prince and Princess Pondicherry escape covered in chocolate, looking on at the melted palace. He telegrams Wonka, asking for a new palace, but Wonka is busy because he has problems of his own concerning the spies coming to the factory.

Pondicherry

Pondicherry is located on the southeastern coast of India, within the state of Tamil Nadu, near Madras. In contrast to the rest of India--which was (mostly) British territory prior to independence--Pondicherry was a French colony until 1954, when newly-independent India annexed it (a step confirmed by treaty in 1962). Contrary to Dahl's novel, a royal family had not existed there for many centuries.

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