Updated On: 10 September, 2025 09:33 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank Shekhar
Read his book, and briefly spoke to retired Mumbai cop, Madhukar Zende, to realise there’s more to his career than nabbing serial killer, Charles Sobhraj, twice

A still from the Netflix comedy thriller Inspector Zende, starring Manoj Bajpayee
The only Charlie worth snorting is Inspector Zende (Netflix)!
By which I mean, it’s a film about the serial killer, Charles Sobhraj. As was Main Aur Charles (2015) — whose lead actor Randeep Hooda told me he’d also been regularly in touch with the OG Charles, then. So was the BBC series, The Serpent (2021; Netflix).