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  • Complete Monster: Ashok Ghatak is a cruel slumlord who shows off his callousness by depriving a farmer named Hazari of his rickshaw license, knowing full well he's condemning the man and his family to starvation. When his father dies, Ashok can't even pretend to be sad and takes over the slums, and immediately starts working out to drive the foreign doctors treating people in the slums, including those suffering from leprosy. To make his point heard, Ashok threatens to murder children, then later on initiates an episode of savage violence against dozens of innocent people, including watching with a smile as a legless leper is set on fire. Ashok also loves cutting Glasgow Grins into people, doing this to an innocent woman the doctors befriend, and later on trying to force Hazari to watch as he cuts another grin into his daughter. When Hazari begs him to stop abusing his people, Ashok retorts that they're his people and he can do as he wants with them.

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