HISTORY BOY

With his latest turn as Charles Sobhraj in Vikramaditya Motwane’s Black Warrant, actor Sidhant Gupta may well have found his groove

- Amit Dixit

While Black Warrant, the Netflix series about a rookie jailer in Tihar, may have put the spotlight on Shashi Kapoor's grandson Zahan Kapoor, who plays Sunil Gupta, the former jailer on whose book the series is based, equally arresting is Sidhant Gupta's portrayal of the 'Bikini Killer' Charles Sobhraj who was a famous Tihar inmate in the 1980s. "He is a cool, sexy character and they have really gotten it right," says Gupta, who is an unabashed admirer of the show's co-creator Vikramaditya Motwane, a perfectionist whose "every frame speaks volumes". "His detailing is unmatched. I can spend a lifetime on his sets," he adds.