Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe's Challenge

138 mins | Action, Adventure, War, History, TV Movie | April 23, 2006

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...

Sharpe's Challenge

138 mins | Action, Adventure, War, History, TV Movie | April 23, 2006

Sharpe's Challenge
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...
IMDb rating 7.4
Producers Picture Palace, Celtic Films Entertainment
Original title Sharpe's Challenge
Directors Tom Clegg
Writers Bernard Cornwell, Russell Lewis

Cast

Sean Bean

as Richard Sharpe

Padma Lakshmi

as Madhuvanthi

Daragh O'Malley

as Sgt. Harper

Toby Stephens

as Dodd

Lucy Brown

as Celia Burroughs

Michael Cochrane

as Simmerson

Hugh Fraser

as Wellington

Nicholas Blane

as Crosby

Michael Elwyn

as Rawlinson

Lex Shrapnel

as Lawrence