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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.
With Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Toby Stephens, Padma Lakshmi. 1817. 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. That agent is Patrick Harper.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Tom Clegg
- 2007-04-14
April 22, 2006. 1 h 41 min. TV-MA. Sean Bean stars as Bernard Cornwell's Napoleonic soldier Richard Sharpe. Free trial of BritBox. The award-winning Sharpe returns for an action-packed swashbuckling special shot entirely on location in India.
The movie is a weird amalgam of details from the Cornwell novels Sharpe's Tiger, Sharpe's Triumph, and Sharpe's Fortress, which were set in India between 1799 and 1803, as well as original elements, all set three years after the Battle of Waterloo, but filmed almost a decade after Sharpe's Waterloo .
Sharpe's Challenge, the story. Two years after 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 what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date.
Sharpe's Challenge. A British officer (Sean Bean) infiltrates a maharajah's (Karan Panthaky) fort to save the kidnapped daughter of a general.
- Adventure
Apr 23, 2006 · Novel. Russell Lewis. Screenplay. 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.
