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Who is Charles Sobhraj, the Bikini Killer and conman?
4 Apr, 2021 07:03 PM
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Charles Sobhraj is bundled into a police van in Delhi in 1997, shortly after his release from jail. Photo / AP
Charles Sobhraj is bundled into a police van in Delhi in 1997, shortly after his release from jail. Photo / AP
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Handsome, charming, and fluent in several languages, Charles Sobhraj was like some bizarre real-life combination of Patricia Highsmith s Tom Ripley and Thomas Harris Hannibal Lecter .
His isn t a name that many would recognise yet the suave Vietnamese-Indian Frenchman was once one of Asia s most wanted criminals, the charismatic con artist and so-called Bikini Killer who lured at least a dozen young backpackers to their deaths in the 1970s.
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SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper THE SERPENT Three stars
The eight-episode Netflix docudrama The Serpent just might hold the all-time record for number of flashbacks and flash-forwards in a limited series, as we continually zip a couple of years ahead or a few months back along the mid-1970s timeline a frustrating and utterly unnecessary and wildly overused device that consistently works against an otherwise fascinating, exotic, lurid period-piece true-crime story about a suave, identity-switching serial killer who makes Tom Ripley seem like an amateur.
Serpentine (I see what you did there) storyline concerns aside, The Serpent is an effectively unsettling, fictionalized telling of the incredible and horrific series of kidnappings and murders orchestrated by one Charles Sobhraj, played to suave and oily perfection by Tahar Rahim, the brilliant French actor last seen in The Mauritanian. (For most of the story, Sobhraj operates under the alias of Alain Gautier, so
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An eight-part series available Friday on Netflix.
Serpentine (I see what you did there) storyline concerns aside, “The Serpent” is an effectively unsettling, fictionalized telling of the incredible and horrific series of kidnappings and murders orchestrated by one Charles Sobhraj, played to suave and oily perfection by Tahar Rahim, the brilliant French actor last seen in “The Mauritanian.” (For most of the story, Sobhraj operates under the alias of Alain Gautier, so we’ll refer to him as Alain moving forward.) The story opens in Bangkok, 1975, with Alain clearly the Man as he glides around a poolside party at an apartment building filled with bohemian hippie types, most of them from Western Europe or America and all of them looking to let their freak flags fly and extend the 1960s vibe as far as possible.
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