Escape from Taliban
DVD cover
Directed byUjjwal Chatterjee
Written bySushmita Banerjee (book A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife)
Ujjwal Chatterjee (screenplay)
Shubhrajyoti (dialogue)
Produced byAshok Khemka
Vijay Nopany
StarringManisha Koirala
Nawab Shah (actor)
CinematographyVivek Banerjee
Edited byUjjal Nandi
Music byBabul Bose
Release date
  • 14 February 2003 (2003-02-14)
Running time
166 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguagesHindi
Urdu
English
Budget₹3.50 crore[1]
Box office₹1.44 crore[1]

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.[2]

Sushmita Banerjee, whose book inspired this movie, was shot dead by suspected Taliban militants in Afghanistan in September 2013.[3]

Plot

This story based on the story of Sushmita Bannerjee, a Bengali Brahmin woman, who was married to an Afghan businessman in 1989, shifted to Afghanistan in the same year and later fled back to India in 1995 to escape the Taliban who issued a death sentence for her because she refused to abide by their rule on converting to Islam.[4]

Cast

Production

The film was shot in Jaisalmer, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Ladakh.[5]

Music

Lyrics were penned by Mehboob.

Title Singer(s)
"Aye Jaane Jaa" Udit Narayan, Kavita Krishnamurthy
"Titli Si Ud Chali" Alka Yagnik, Sana Aziz
"Jeete Hain Yahan" Sneha Pant, Kumar Sanu
"Jeete Hain Yahan" (Arabic) Chorus
"Kahan Se Aate Hain" Asha Bhonsle, Sunidhi Chauhan
"Rimil Baba" Sadhana Sargam, Babul Supriyo, Sonu Nigam

References

  1. ^ a b "Escape from Taliban – Movie". Box Office India.
  2. ^ Chandrika Narayan; Masoud Popalzai (5 September 2013). "Afghan militants target, kill female author, police say". CNN. Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Indian Author Sushmita Banerjee killed by Taliban in Afghanistan". Archived from the original on 7 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  4. ^ Jeevan Vasagar. "Direct from Bollywood: Taliban the musical Archived 17 August 2021 at the Wayback Machine." The Guardian. 19 February 2003.
  5. ^ "BBC - Coventry and Warwickshire Films - Escape from Taliban". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 10 January 2023.

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