Sanjay Dutt in the role Charles Sobhraj the notorious killerFiled Under: Sanjay
Sanjay Dutt will depict Charles Sobhraj, a notorious killer nicknamed “the serpent” for his knack to give police the skid, in a forthcoming new film.
Sobhraj, 63, is currently serving a life term in a jail in Nepal for the murder of an American backpacker. He was arrested in 2003 at a casino in Kathmandu. Sobhraj is accused of killing more than 20 young western backpackers across Asia, usually by drugging them, in the 1970s and 1980s. His actions gave rise to two books, a movie.
Dutt, convicted last year in connection with India’s worst bombing, will try to enact Sobhraj’s character.
The new film, “Charles and I”, will spotlight on the years of cat and mouse that Sobhraj played with the law. The film will be shot in Turkey, France, India and Australia. Incidentally, Sobhraj was born to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother. He is a French citizen.
While serving a 20-year sentence in India, he was a fugitive from prison in the mid 1980s, but was caught and returned to jail until 1997 when he was released. In 1975, Thailand issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of drugging and killing six women, all wearing bikinis, on a beach at Pattaya. In the new movie, a police officer narrates the saga of Sobhraj, and discusses his modus operandi.
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- 10 Jun 2008 7:42 PM
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