British TV series ‘The Serpent’ revisits Charles Sobhraj’s deadly crime spree in Thailand
French actor Tahar Rahim plays the half-Indian and half-Vietnamese career criminal. Tahar Rahim in The Serpent (2021) | Mammoth Screen/BBC/Netflix
The exploits of Charles Sobhraj have spawned a host of books, television shows and movies, including the Hindi-language production
Main Aur Charles in 2015. Prawal Raman’s film, starring Randeep Hooda, focused on the time spent by the career criminal in India in the late 1970s and 1980s. The deadly trail of deception, identity swapping, drugs, gems and bodies that preceded Sobhraj’s Delhi adventure is charted by the BBC miniseries