In Poacher, Alan Joseph is an intel analyst who joins Neel Banerjee’s team when they need someone to decipher CDRs. Roshan Mathew plays Alan.
In the series, Alan Joseph is a computer programmer working for the Wildlife Trust of India’s Crime Control Division.
Apart from being a computer programmer, Alan is regarded as ‘The Snake Expert’, who has spent years studying them.
Unlike others, he doesn’t see snakes as a threat. He thinks they are afraid of humans more than humans are afraid of them.
However, Alan’s love for snakes sometimes sees him indulging in unethical practices. In the show, he dons a doctor’s coat and enters a hospital to treat a snake-bite patient.
During the investigation of the Malayattoor poaching case, Alan serves as one of the leads who assists Neel’s team on the technical side of things.
Due to his involvement in this case, his relationship with his family is a bit affected, but he manages to make things right in the end.
Inspiration behind Alan Joseph
The character of Alan Joseph is based on Jose Louies, who is currently the Joint Director and Chief of Wildlife Crime Control at the Wildlife Trust of India, New Delhi.
Back in the day, during the investigation of the Malayttoor poaching case, much like Alan Joseph’s character, Louies offered tech support to the team handling the case.
In an interview featuring Richie Mehta and Jose Louies, Mehta explains that Louies guided Mehta along with other investigators who worked on this case.
Louies was articulate about documenting how they cracked the case featured in the series, which helped Mehta a lot.
Apart from that, much like Alan Joseph, Jose Louies is also an expert on snakes and snakebites.
Alan Joseph’s approach to studying a snakebite and helping its victim in the series is similar to how Jose Louies handles these situations in real life.
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