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...

Cast

Sean Bean

Richard Sharpe

Padma Lakshmi

Madhuvanthi

Daragh O'Malley

Sgt. Harper

Toby Stephens

Dodd

Lucy Brown

Celia Burroughs

Michael Cochrane

Simmerson

Hugh Fraser

Wellington

Nicholas Blane

Crosby

Michael Elwyn

Rawlinson

Lex Shrapnel

Lawrence

P

Peter Symonds

Burroughs

Peter-Hugo Daly

Sergeant Shadrach Bickerstaff

Alyy Khan

Mohan Singh