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...
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
