''Escape from Taliban'' is a 2003 Indian film directed by Ujjwal Chatterjee. The film is based on the story ''A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife'' by Sushmita Banerjee, who fled Afghanistan in 1995 after six years of living there with her Afghan husband. Banerjee, whose book inspired this movie, was shot dead by suspected

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militants in Afghanistan in September 2013, because they believed she was "an Indian spy".

Plot

The story is based on the life of Sushmita Bannerjee, a

Bengali Hindu Bengali Hindus () are adherents of Hinduism who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. They make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and Assam's Barak Valley ...

woman who was married to an Afghan businessman in 1989. She moved to Afghanistan in the same year and fled back to India in 1995 to escape the

, who issued a death sentence for her because she refused to abide by their rule on converting to

Islam Islam is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the Quran, and the teachings of Muhammad. Adherents of Islam are called Muslims, who are estimated to number Islam by country, 2 billion worldwide and are the world ...

.Jeevan Vasagar.
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." ''The Guardian''. 19 February 2003.

Cast

Manisha Koirala Manisha Koirala (; born 16 August 1970) is a Nepali people, Nepalese actress who works in Cinema of India, Indian films, predominantly in Hindi and Tamil language, Tamil. Born to the politically prominent Koirala family, she is the daughter of ...

as Sushmita Banerjee / Sayed Kamal * Nawab Shah as Jaanbaaz * Vineeta Malik as Abu * Prithvi Zutshi as Dranai Chacha * Alyy Khan as Abdul Malik * Yusuf Hussain as Colonel Banerjee

Production

The film was shot in Jaisalmer, Hyderabad, Mumbai and

Ladakh Ladakh () is a region administered by India as a union territory and constitutes an eastern portion of the larger Kashmir region that has been the subject of a Kashmir#Kashmir dispute, dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947 and India an ...

Music

Lyrics were penned by Mehboob.

References

External links

* 2003 films 2000s Hindi-language films 2000s Urdu-language films Films scored by Babul Bose Films set in Afghanistan Documentary films about women in Afghanistan Works about the Taliban Indian films based on actual events Indian biographical drama films Indian historical drama films Urdu-language Indian films War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) films {{2000s-Hindi-film-stub