https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Escape_from_TalibanEscape from Taliban - Revision history2026-07-30T14:53:12ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Escape_from_Taliban&diff=458627&oldid=prevAdvsalahuddinahmed at 11:47, 3 March 20262026-03-03T11:47:33Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=December 2015}}<br />
{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Escape from Taliban<br />
| image = Escape From Taliban 2004 DVD cover.jpg<br />
| caption = DVD cover<br />
| director = Ujjwal Chatterjee<br />
| producer = [[Ashok Khemka]]<br />Vijay Nopany<br />
| writer = [[Sushmita Banerjee]] (book ''A Kabuliwala's Bengali Wife'')<br />Ujjwal Chatterjee (screenplay)<br />Shubhrajyoti (dialogue)<br />
| narrator = <br />
| starring = [[Manisha Koirala]]<br />[[Nawab Shah (actor)|Nawab Shah]]<br />
| music = '''Songs:'''<br/>Babul Bose<br/>'''Score:'''<br/>[[Vanraj Bhatia]]<br />
| cinematography = Vivek Banerjee<br />
| editing = Ujjal Nandi<br />
| distributor = <br />
| released = {{Film date|2003|02|14|df=y}}<br />
| runtime = 166 minutes<br />
| country = India<br />
| language = Hindi<br/>[[Urdu]]<br/>English<br />
| budget = {{INR}} 3.50 crore<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://boxofficeindia.com/movie.php?movieid=556|title=Escape from Taliban – Movie|publisher=Box Office India}}</ref><br />
| gross = {{INR}} 1.44 crore<ref name="auto"/><br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''''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 people|Afghan]] husband.<ref>{{cite news|title=Afghan militants target, kill female author, police say|url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/world/asia/afghanistan-indian-author-killed/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=5 September 2013|author=Chandrika Narayan|author2=Masoud Popalzai|access-date=5 September 2013|archive-date=5 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905220252/http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/world/asia/afghanistan-indian-author-killed/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><br />
<br />
Banerjee, whose book inspired this movie, was shot dead by suspected [[Taliban]] militants in Afghanistan in September 2013,<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Author Sushmita Banerjee killed by Taliban in Afghanistan|url=http://news.biharprabha.com/2013/09/indian-author-sushmita-banerjee-killed-by-taliban-in-afghanistan/|accessdate=5 September 2013|archive-date=7 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130907101406/http://news.biharprabha.com/2013/09/indian-author-sushmita-banerjee-killed-by-taliban-in-afghanistan/|url-status=live}}</ref> because they believed she was "an Indian spy".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-09-14 |title=‘We Killed Sushmita Banerjee’ |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-killed-sushmita-banerjee-says-renegade-taliban-militia/ |access-date=2025-05-27 |website=The Daily Beast |language=en}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Plot ==<br />
The story is based on the life of Sushmita Bannerjee, a [[Bengali Hindus|Bengali Hindu]] woman who was married to an [[Afghan people|Afghan]] businessman in 1989. She moved to Afghanistan in the same year and 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]].<ref name="guard">Jeevan Vasagar. "[https://www.theguardian.com/india/story/0,12559,898302,00.html Direct from Bollywood: Taliban the musical] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817222850/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/feb/19/india.afghanistan|date=17 August 2021}}." ''The Guardian''. 19 February 2003.</ref><br />
<br />
== Cast ==<br />
*[[Manisha Koirala]] as [[Sushmita Banerjee]] / Sayed Kamal<br />
*[[Nawab Shah (actor)|Nawab Shah]] as Jaanbaaz<br />
* Vineeta Malik as Abu<br />
* [[Prithvi Zutshi]] as Dranai Chacha<br />
* [[Alyy Khan]] as Abdul Malik<br />
* [[Yusuf Hussain]] as Colonel Banerjee<br />
<br />
==Production==<br />
<br />
The film was shot in [[Jaisalmer]], Hyderabad, Mumbai and [[Ladakh]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coventry and Warwickshire Films – Escape from Taliban |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/films/reviews/a_f/escape-from-taliban.shtml |access-date=2023-01-10 |publisher=BBC}}</ref><br />
<br />
== Music ==<br />
Lyrics were penned by [[Mehboob]].<br />
<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
! Song !! Singer<br />
|-<br />
| "Ae Jaan-E-Jaan" <br />
| [[Udit Narayan]], [[Kavita Krishnamurthy]] <br />
|-<br />
| "Titli Si Ud Chali" <br />
| [[Alka Yagnik]] <br />
|-<br />
| "Jeete Hain Yahan" <br />
| [[Kumar Sanu]]<br />
|-<br />
| "Jeete Hain Yahan" (Arabic)<br />
| Chorus<br />
|-<br />
| "Kahan Se Aate Hain" <br />
| [[Asha Bhosle]], [[Sunidhi Chauhan]]<br />
|-<br />
| "Rimil Baba" <br />
| [[Sadhana Sargam]], [[Babul Supriyo]], [[Sonu Nigam]]<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0312664|Escape from Taliban}}<br />
<br />
[[Category:2003 films]]<br />
[[Category:2003 Hindi-language films]]<br />
[[Category:2000s Urdu-language films]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Babul Bose]]<br />
[[Category:Films set in Afghanistan]]<br />
[[Category:Documentary films about women in Afghanistan]]<br />
[[Category:Works about the Taliban]]<br />
[[Category:Indian films based on actual events]]<br />
[[Category:Indian biographical drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Indian historical drama films]]<br />
[[Category:Urdu-language Indian films]]<br />
[[Category:War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) films]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{2000s-Hindi-film-stub}}</div>Advsalahuddinahmed