Charlie Anna

A rather ruthless canine himself, Charlie Anna is a high-ranking gangster located in the streets of Mumbai. He serves as the main antagonist of the Hindi animated film Roadside Romeo, setting his eyes on the lovely Laila and coming into conflict with Romeo as he falls in love with her.

Roadside Romeo
Early on in the film, Romeo is kicked out of his home and encounters a group of street dogs and one cat. Bringing them together, Romeo creates a salon that specializes in giving all local canines a trim in exchange for payments in bones. However, Charlie Anna's right-hand dog Chhainu comes to the salon to collect the expected hafta (protection money) from them. Incensed at this, Romeo forcefully kicks Chhainu out, which leads Romeo's friends to try meeting with Charlie Anna to plead their case. Unfortunately, Charlie Anna attempts to have them strung up by his ninja dogs, the Angels, for their lack of hafta. Using his wits, Romeo sneaks out some of Charlie Anna's collected funds to pose as hafta to set his friends free.

Charlie Anna returns in the plot when he goes to the Moonlight Club and sets his eyes on Laila with the full intent of making her his. Despite the threat of bodily harm and death to anyone who tries to get close to Laila, Romeo (who has since fallen in love with her) dances and sings with her during her performance. Enraged, Charlie Anna has his Angels abduct and string up Romeo and is about to murder him when Romeo promises that he can make Laila fall for him. Eager for any opportunity to win Laila's affections, Charlie Anna permits Romeo to do so, but threatens far worse things if Romeo fails or double-crosses him.

In order to throw Charlie Anna off, Romeo has his cat friend Mini disguise herself as Laila to make it appear that she quite soundly rejects Charlie Anna. However, the canine gangster is only made much angrier by this and once again threatens to kill Romeo until the dog promises a second attempt for Laila's heart. However, this plot is exposed not long after Laila, who has since developed feelings for Romeo, kisses him on the rooftops. Chhainu witnesses this moment and blabs everything, prompting a heartbroken Laila to leave Romeo. Alerted to Romeo's real intentions, Charlie Anna launches an attack against Romeo and his friends, along with Chhainu and his Angels.

Charlie Anna catches Romeo in an alley and is about to murder him when the dogcatchers appear. He flees for a bit before he is surrounded by the dogcatchers. Despite the gangster's attempts on his life, Romeo moves to give Charlie Anna a chance to escape and gets captured himself. Moved that his enemy would help him escape, Charlie Anna arranges Romeo's associates to distract the dogcatchers while he moves to free Romeo. Turning over a new leaf, Charlie explains the truth of the matter to Laila and encourages her to begin a relationship with Romeo. In the last scenes of the film, Charlie Anna joins the others in a performance at the Moonlight Club.