The thriller opens with the corpse of a young woman washing up the shore of a beach in Pattaya in Thailand and traces Sobhraj’s sly escape from Thailand to India. Be patient so that you can wrap your head around the frenetic events unfurling in the first 40 minutes of the film. This is one of the rare Bollywood films that doesn’t overexplain and leaves a lot unsaid. Main Aur Charles, featuring Randeep Hooda as the charming cold-blooded conman and murderer who killed at least ten tourists on a hippie trail in India, Thailand and Nepal in the 1970s, is that and more: It’s decidedly convoluted, thoroughly confusing and at times crackling.
True life serial killer Charles Sobhraj was a master manipulator who revelled in deceitful mind games, so it’s understood that a film chronicling this devious mastermind’s audacious jail breaks would be tricky.
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