A film that tells its tale with calculated intent — coolly, cleverly, taking its time — mirroring the dry panache of its self-assured protagonist…

Watch it for not just an incredible performance by Hooda, but also how smart biopics can be made. Not all have to be like Ketan Mehta’s Rang Rasiya.

Bollywood biopics usually tend to be horrendously bloated and overwrought. Main Aur Charles is anything but.

If that isn’t enough of an incentive, watch it for Randeep Hooda’s alluring French drawl and Adil Hussain’s sturdy presence.

Prawaal Raman does a commendable job of recreating the 60s-70s. He also gets his protagonist’s physicality and smugness bang on. Working on a wafer-thin account given to him by the real-life Delhi cop, Amod Kanth, Raman still manages to infuse life (at least partly) into this film and into the life of the notorious killer.

…an intriguing tale, neatly stitched together – it seemingly reconstructs a single incident (the jailbreak) and the subsequent events. However it provides an ambiguous insight into one of history’s most astute “criminal” mind.

The movie is all style and very little soul. And that’s a disappointment as it attempted to tell a really fascinating story of a mastermind. But do watch it, if only for Hooda.

Charles Sobhraj gets an unexpectedly arresting lease of life in this gutsy lucid and robust bio-pic . Director Prawaal Raman sweeps us into Sobhraj’s exploits .Once in, there’s no way out.

Suffer the seduction.

Overall, “Main Aur Charles” is a well-made intriguing film with realistic performances.

They are stylish snippets that have little detail in the telling. Yet again, we have a film based on a real life personality that doesn’t tell us much more about the personality than what we new from newspapers or a quick Internet search.

Although the movie does get a little confusing, Main Aur Charles is a good one time watch especially if you have an interest to know about this “Bikini Killer”.