He arrived in the big city chasing a dream that thousands shared: a young man from a small town, hoping the film world might notice him. Instead, Gowri Shankar became one of the most feared names in Tamil Nadu, a gangster and murderer whose nickname, drawn from the humble autorickshaw, would outlive him by decades. Auto Shankar's story is not only about the killings that sent him to the gallows. It is about how a small-time hustler built a criminal empire on the back of a cit