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** With Balram needing to keep up appearances and Ashok usually being a BenevolentBoss, two men can often be seen smiling at each other.
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** Balram actually describes Ashok as his "ex" in the end.
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** Balram actually describes Ashok as his "ex" and that he misses him in the end.
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* MagnificentBastard: (2021 film): [[SelfMadeMan Balram Halwai]] was once a brilliant child robbed of the chance for a good education. Charming his way into the employ of a wealthy businessman, Balram plays to his prejudice to get the family's head chauffeur fired to take the job himself. Becoming friends with the man's younger son Ashok and his wife, Balram realizes the depths of Ashok's [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] when he tries to have Balram framed for a hit-and-run his drunken wife committed. Also learning Ashok means to replace him, Balram lures out Ashok to kill him and rob the family, escaping to bribe the police and opening a massively successful taxi company and [[KarmaHoudini ready to become a major player in the Asian business world]].
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* MagnificentBastard: (2021 film): [[SelfMadeMan Balram Halwai]] was once a brilliant child robbed of the chance for a good education. Charming his way into the employ of a wealthy businessman, Balram plays to his prejudice to get the family's head chauffeur fired to take the job himself. Becoming friends with the man's younger son Ashok and his wife, Balram realizes the depths of Ashok's [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] when he tries to have Balram framed for a hit-and-run his drunken wife committed. Also learning Ashok means to replace him, Balram lures out Ashok to kill him and rob the family, escaping to bribe the police and opening a massively successful taxi company and [[KarmaHoudini ready to become a major player in the Asian business world]].
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* MagnificentBastard: (2021 film): [[SelfMadeMan Balram Halwai]] was once a brilliant child robbed of the chance for a good education. Charming his way into the employ of a wealthy businessman, Balram plays to his prejudice to get the family's head chauffeur fired to take the job himself. Becoming friends with the man's younger son Ashok and his wife, Balram realizes the depths of Ashok's [[DirtyCoward cowardice]] when he tries to have Balram framed for a hit-and-run his drunken wife committed. Also learning Ashok means to replace him, Balram lures out Ashok to kill him and rob the family, escaping to bribe the police and opening a massively successful taxi company and [[KarmaHoudini ready to become a major player in the Asian business world]].
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
** How much of [[spoiler:Balram's murder of Ashok]] was influenced by his own ambition and how much was influenced by his increasingly [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal wild and abusive behaviour]] towards him?
** Was Ashok really the TokenGoodTeammate NiceGuy of his family, or is he the same entitled, elitist jackass as his brother and father? Did the incident drive him to act like a {{Jerkass}}, or simply revealed his true colours? Complicating matters is that even towards the end, he still has some PetTheDog moments with Balram.
** How much of [[spoiler:Balram's murder of Ashok]] was influenced by his own ambition and how much was influenced by his increasingly [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal wild and abusive behaviour]] towards him?
** Was Ashok really the TokenGoodTeammate NiceGuy of his family, or is he the same entitled, elitist jackass as his brother and father? Did the incident drive him to act like a {{Jerkass}}, or simply revealed his true colours? Complicating matters is that even towards the end, he still has some PetTheDog moments with Balram.
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** Balram describes first meeting Ashok as fate and stares open-mouthed at him, remarking "I knew then this was the master for me".
** With Balram needing to keep up appearances and Ashok usually being a BenevolentBoss, two men can often be seen smiling at each other.
** "My master's fruit-flavoured perfume rushed into my nostrils"
** [[spoiler:After Pinky leaves Ashok]], Balram outright states that it is his duty to "[[spoiler:be like a wife to him]]" as he takes Ashok out for dinners and to temples.
** Balram actually describes Ashok as his "ex" in the end.
** With Balram needing to keep up appearances and Ashok usually being a BenevolentBoss, two men can often be seen smiling at each other.
** "My master's fruit-flavoured perfume rushed into my nostrils"
** [[spoiler:After Pinky leaves Ashok]], Balram outright states that it is his duty to "[[spoiler:be like a wife to him]]" as he takes Ashok out for dinners and to temples.
** Balram actually describes Ashok as his "ex" in the end.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: Quite a few. The Black Fort, Balram's obsession with chandeliers, the whiskey bottles...
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* CompleteMonster: The Stork, the Buffalo and the Raven are all gigantic bastards. It's stated several times in the book that if any of their servants displease them, they will not only kill the servant, but beat and murder the servant's family as well.
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* HoYay: Between Balram and Ashok.
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* ChaoticNeutral: Balram. While he obviously has a conscience, breaking out of the coop is his first priority.
