BigList
Login / Sign up
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

Action Adventure History War TV Movie
Release Date: 2006, April 23
Directors: Tom Clegg
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Celtic Films Entertainment, Picture Palace
Cast: Hugh Fraser, Sean Bean, Nicholas Blane, Toby Stephens, Lex Shrapnel, Peter-Hugo Daly, Michael Cochrane, Daragh O'Malley, Alyy Khan, Lucy Brown, Padma Lakshmi, Michael Elwyn

Overview:

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...