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Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe's Challenge

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 23, 2006

Runtime

2h 18m

Genres

War, Action, Adventure, History, TV Movie

User Score

63%

Original Title

Sharpe's Challenge

Production Companies

Celtic Films Entertainment, Picture Palace

Director

Tom Clegg

Description

Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe's Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When a beautiful general's daughter is kidnapped by the Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into its deadly lair. Deep in the heart of enemy territory he also has to keep at bay the beautiful but scheming Regent, Madhuvanthi, who is out to seduce him. The fate of an Empire and the life of a General's daughter lie in one man's hands...