The story of French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, portrayed in the BBC-Netflix drama The Serpent, is well-known.

Now, a new Netflix film tells the lesser-known story of an Indian police officer who captured the notorious killer - not once, but twice.

Inspector Zende stars Bollywood actor Manoj Bajpayee in the titular role of the policeman while actor Jim Sarbh plays Sobhraj - reimagined as Carl Bhojraj.

The film unfolds over three weeks in 1986 as the policeman and the criminal play a cat-and-mouse game.

Warning: Spoilers below for the Netflix film

It starts on 16 March that year with Sobhraj escaping from Delhi's high-security Tihar jail, where he had been serving a 12-year prison term since 1976 for murdering a French tourist.

Falsely claiming it was his birthday, he feeds drug-laced sweets to the staff and nearly all the prisoners and flees.

A few days later, when he turns up in Mumbai, Inspector Madhukar Zende is called in since he had already arrested him in 1971.

The film's release has brought Mr Zende - who has a cameo in the film as the "OG", or the original Inspector Zende - back into the headlines in India, decades after he made the arrests.

I spoke to Mr Zende and read his recent book Mumbai's Most Wanted to piece together the story of Sobhraj's arrest.

The retired 88-year-old officer told the BBC that he had arrested many hardened criminals and members of Mumbai's underworld, but it was the notoriety of "the international criminal Sobhraj" that earned him the reputation of "a supercop".

Born to an Indian father and a Vietnamese mother in Saigon, Sobhraj grew up in France where his........

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