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Escape from Taliban (2003)

Escape from Taliban poster
Original title
Escape From Taliban
Directed by
Ujjwal Chatterjee
Genre
drama film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 13m
Rating
6.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A Bengali woman moves to Afghanistan to live with her husband. After six years, she is forced to flee the Taliban regime.

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What happens

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 Taliban militants in Afghanistan in September 2013, because they believed she was "an Indian spy". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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