Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

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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...

Director: Tom Clegg
Writer: Russell Lewis

Casts

	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
	Peter Symonds as Burroughs
	Peter-Hugo Daly as Sergeant Shadrach Bickerstaff
	Alyy Khan as Mohan Singh

Crew