Caractacus Pott Caractacus Pott Caractacus Potts is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang" and its film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to Pott's character. In the original 1964 book, "Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car", Pott is a Royal Navy Commander and eccentric inventor who lives with his wife Mimsy and their twin eight-year-old children, Jeremy and Jemima, on their hilltop farm. The filmmakers, including screenwriter Roald Dahl, altered a good deal of the book's details when crafting the 1968 film musical version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", in which Caractacus is portrayed by Dick
Chitty Chitty The Chitty are a distinctive group of Tamil people found mainly in Melaka and Singapore, who are also known as the Indian Peranakans and have adopted Chinese and Malay cultural practices whilst also retaining their Hindu heritage. As of today, their population stands at 2,000. The Chitty/Chetti community is largely from the Coramandel Coast of South India and are devout Hindus. Like the Peranakans, the Chitty speak a Malay patois, which is mixed with many Tamil loan words. Many of the Chitty are unable to communicate in Tamil fluently. Historical records stated that the Tamil traders from Panai in