The Netflix limited series The Serpent has revisited the crime spree of conman and killer Charles Sobhraj who was linked to the unsolved murders of Western tourists on the so-called Hippie Trail of Southeast Asia in the early 1970s.
The Serpent : Where is Ajay Chowdhury Now?
On 4/12/21 at 6:55 AM EDT
The Serpent, streaming now on Netflix, tells the story of a true crime spree committed by three people Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim) and accomplices Marie-Andree Leclerc (Jenna Coleman) and Ajay Chowdhury (Amesh Edireweera).
We know what happened to two of them. Sobhraj is currently serving a life sentence in a Nepal jail, while Leclerc died of ovarian cancer in April 1984.
Where is Ajay Chowdhury from
The Serpent now?
What happened to Ajay Chowdhury is actually one of the greatest mysteries of the Sobhraj case even more mysterious than why Sobhraj visited Nepal in 2003 despite there being a warrant out for his arrest.
‘The Serpent’: TV Review Daniel Fienberg
For the second season of FX’s
American Crime Story franchise, Tom Rob Smith used a reverse-chronological structure to trace Andrew Cunanan’s
Talented Mr. Ripley-style journey from con artist with identity issues to road-tripping murderer. It was a framing device that didn’t always feel organic, but it yielded unexpected emotional rewards as the series progressed, aided tremendously by Darren Criss’ lacerating performance.
It’s impossible to know if writer Richard Warlow took inspiration from
The Assassination of Gianni Versace; maybe it’s a complete coincidence that he approached the menacing tale of ’70s serial killer Charles Sobhraj as a
4/2/2021
Tahar Rahim and Jenna Coleman star in this eight-part Netflix miniseries about serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who murdered at least a dozen people in Thailand, India and Nepal in the 70s.
For the second season of FX s
American Crime Story franchise, Tom Rob Smith used a reverse-chronological structure to trace Andrew Cunanan s
Talented Mr. Ripley-style journey from con artist with identity issues to road-tripping murderer. It was a framing device that didn t always feel organic, but it yielded unexpected emotional rewards as the series progressed, aided tremendously by Darren Criss lacerating performance.
It s impossible to know if writer Richard Warlow took inspiration from
The Serpent : The True Story Behind the Netflix Show
On 4/2/21 at 3:00 AM EDT
The Serpent is streaming now on Netflix, and is the streamer s latest foray into true crime. The show, which aired on the BBC in the U.K. in early 2021, tells the story of Charles Sobhraj (played by Tahar Rahim), who evaded the police for decades while embarking on a global crime spree. Though the Netflix show mostly focuses on the murders that Sobhraj committed, this is just the tip of the iceberg of the true story.
The true story behind
The Serpent on Netflix
Born in what was then Saigon (and is now Hoi Chi Minh City) in Vietnam, Sobhraj criminal career began with petty crimes in France in the 1960s. In fact, he first went to prison in 1963 in Paris for burglary.