A quick read through the Wikipedia entry for thief and murderer Charles Sobhraj reveals just why the charismatic predator known as the “Bikini Killer” is a popular subject for movies and television shows. The 2021 Netflix Original British series The Serpent is based on Sobhraj’s crimes across Southeast Asia in the 1970s, and he plays a role in the 2025 Original Hindi series Black Warrant as well.

With the new film Inspector Zende , Netflix India shifts the focus from the criminal — renamed “Carl Bhojraj” to emphasize that this is not strictly biographical — to the police officer who captured him, twice. Inspector Zende (who keeps his real name for the movie) caught the serial killer once, so he could be put on trial in India, and then a second time when the thief broke out of pris

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