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Sharpe's Challenge is a British TV film from 2006, usually shown in two parts, which is part of an ITV series based on Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction novels about the British soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars.
The award-winning Sharpe returns for an action-packed swashbuckling special shot entirely on location in India. A year after the battle of Waterloo, dispatches from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests.
Sharpe has retired from the army but is summoned by the Duke of Wellington for an important mission. An agent in India has gone missing while trying to track down a traitorous British officer now advising a rebellious local leader. That agent is Sharpe's old friend Patrick Harper.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Tom Clegg
- 2007-04-14
Apr 23, 2006 · 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 recover an agent in India, a job he refuses until he finds the agent's name is Harper. When a general's daughter is then kidnapped by an Indian warlord, the tension mounts, leaving Sharpe no option but to pursue the enemy right into his lair.
Director. Sean Bean. Sharpe. Daragh O'Malley. Harper. Toby Stephens. Dodd. Michael Elwyn. Rawlinson. Karan Panthaky. Khande Rao. Advertise With Us. A British officer (Sean Bean) infiltrates a...
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Apr 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.
