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'''''Escape from Taliban''''' is a 2003 [[India]]n film directed by [[Ujjal Chattopadhyaya]]. 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|newspaper=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> During that time, the [[Taliban]] 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> Sushmita 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>

* {{IMDb title|0312664|Escape from Taliban}}