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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = The Darjeeling Limited<br />
| image = Darjeeling Limited Poster.jpg<br />
| caption = Theatrical release poster<br />
| director = [[Wes Anderson]]<br />
| writer = {{ubl|Wes Anderson|[[Roman Coppola]]|[[Jason Schwartzman]]}}<br />
| producer = {{ubl|Wes Anderson|[[Scott Rudin]]|Roman Coppola|[[Lydia Dean Pilcher]]}}<br />
| starring = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Owen Wilson]]<br />
* [[Adrien Brody]]<br />
* Jason Schwartzman<br />
* [[Anjelica Huston]]<br />
}}<br />
| cinematography = [[Robert Yeoman]]<br />
| editing = [[Andrew Weisblum]]<br />
| studio = {{ubl|[[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]|Collage Cinemagraphique|American Empirical Pictures|[[RatPac-Dune Entertainment|Dune Entertainment]]|Cine Mosaic|[[Steven M. Rales#Indian Paintbrush|Indian Paintbrush]]|Scott Rudin Productions}}<br />
| distributor = Fox Searchlight Pictures<br />
| released = {{Film date|2007|9|3|[[64th Venice International Film Festival|Venice]]|2007|10|26|United States}}<br />
| runtime = 91 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
| budget = $17.5 million<ref name=rose>{{cite web| url=http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/10/26/2/a-conversation-with-director-wes-anderson| date=26 October 2007| title=A conversation with director Wes Anderson| type=[[Charlie Rose (talk show)|Charlie Rose]] interview (10 minutes+)| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027033647/http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2007/10/26/2/a-conversation-with-director-wes-anderson| archive-date=27 October 2007}}</ref><br />
| gross = $35 million<br />
}}<br />
'''''The Darjeeling Limited''''' is a 2007 American [[comedy-drama film]] directed by [[Wes Anderson]] which he co-produced with [[Scott Rudin]], [[Roman Coppola]] and [[Lydia Dean Pilcher]] and co-wrote with Coppola and [[Jason Schwartzman]]. The film stars [[Owen Wilson]], [[Adrien Brody]] and Schwartzman as three estranged brothers who agree to meet in India a year after their father's funeral for a "spiritual journey" aboard a [[luxury train]]. The cast also includes [[Waris Ahluwalia]], [[Amara Karan]], [[Barbet Schroeder]] and [[Anjelica Huston]] with [[Natalie Portman]], [[Camilla Rutherford]], [[Irrfan Khan]] and [[Bill Murray]] in [[cameo roles]].<br />
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The film was released on October 26, 2007 by [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics and earned $35 million on a $17.5 million budget.<ref name=rose/> The film premiered at the [[64th Venice International Film Festival]] in competition for the [[Golden Lion]] and was named among the Top Films of the Year at the [[New York Film Critics Online|NYFCO Award]]s in 2007.<br />
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Anderson's ''[[Hotel Chevalier]]'', starring Schwartzman and Portman, acts as a [[prologue]] to the film.<br />
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==Plot==<br />
A [[Businessperson|businessman]] in [[India]] fails to catch his train—called "The Darjeeling [[limited express|Limited]]"—as it pulls out of a station; he is beaten to it by a younger man, Peter Whitman. Peter reunites with brothers Francis and Jack on board, the three having not seen each other since their father's funeral a year earlier.<br />
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Francis has recently survived a near-fatal [[motorcycle]] accident (leaving his face and head covered in bandages), and thus wishes to reconcile with his brothers on a journey of spiritual self-discovery. He is also covertly searching for their mother, whom the brothers have not seen in many years. With the help of his assistant Brendan, Francis draws up a strict itinerary for the trip and confiscates his brothers' passports to prevent them from getting off the train too early. The three also continue to grieve over their father's death: carrying bags and suitcases marked with his initials, along with other personal items that belonged to him.<br />
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The train takes the brothers through the countryside and to various [[Hindu]] temples, though tension builds as Jack and Peter become infuriated with Francis' controlling behavior. Francis eventually reveals that they will be meeting with their mother, who has become a [[nun]] living at a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[convent]] in the [[Himalayas]]. Peter and Jack are angry, knowing they wouldn't have come if they had been told this earlier. The atmosphere finally comes to a head, and the three have a physical altercation on the train, distressing the other passengers. The Chief Steward, whom the brothers have repeatedly wronged, has them thrown off with all their luggage. Brendan subsequently quits and returns to the train after giving the boys a letter from their mother; its contents imply that she doesn't want to see them. The brothers thus decide to leave India, go their separate ways, and never return.<br />
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After hiking through the wilderness, the brothers see three young boys fall into a [[river]] while attempting to pull a raft across it. Jack and Francis rescue two of the boys, but Peter fails to save the third, who dies. They carry the body back to the boys' village, where they spend the night and are treated kindly. They attend the funeral the next day and experience a repressed [[Flashback (psychology)|flashback]]: the three brothers (accompanied by Alice, Peter's wife) are shown heading to their father's funeral, and then stopping to pick up his [[Porsche]] from the repair shop, even though the car is not ready. It is revealed that their father's death was a result of him being hit by a taxi, and that their mother did not attend the funeral.<br />
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Back in the present, the brothers arrive at the airport, but they suddenly decide to rip up their tickets and go visit their mother. They reach the convent, where their mother is surprised but overjoyed to see them (and Francis coyly admits that his accident was actually a [[suicide attempt]]). That night, after the brothers confront their mother for abandoning them, the family gathers together in silence and reconnect in love. The brothers awake the next morning to find their mother gone, leaving them their breakfast. They decide not to wait for her to return.<br />
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At the train station, the three brothers run for another train called "Bengal Lancer" and gleefully discard all their father's suitcases and bags to catch it. On board, Francis offers to return Peter and Jack their passports, but is told instead to hold onto them.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
{{Div col}}<br />
* [[Owen Wilson]] as Francis<br />
* [[Adrien Brody]] as Peter<br />
* [[Jason Schwartzman]] as Jack<br />
* [[Amara Karan]] as Rita<br />
* [[Wallace Wolodarsky]] as Brendan <br />
* [[Waris Ahluwalia]] as The Chief Steward<br />
* [[Irrfan Khan]] as The Father<br />
* [[Barbet Schroeder]] as The Mechanic<br />
* [[Camilla Rutherford]] as Alice<br />
* [[Bill Murray]] as The Businessman<br />
* [[Anjelica Huston]] as Patricia<br />
* A.P. Singh as Taxi Driver<br />
* [[Kumar Pallana]] as Old Man<br />
* Dalpat Singh as Waiter<br />
* Trudy Matthys as German Lady #1<br />
* Gurdeep Singh as Chief Steward - Bengal Lancer<br />
* [[Natalie Portman]] as Rhett<br />
{{Div col end}}<br />
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==Locations==<br />
Much of the film was shot in [[Jodhpur]], [[Rajasthan]]. The Himalaya scenes were shot in [[Udaipur]], and the opening scene of the film was also shot on the streets of Jodhpur. The International Airport shown near the end is the old terminal building of [[Udaipur Airport]]. The elephant scene was filmed in [[Narlai]]. The scenes set in New York were filmed in [[Long Island City]].<br />
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==Music and soundtrack==<br />
{{main|The Darjeeling Limited (soundtrack)}}<br />
The soundtrack features three songs by [[The Kinks]], "Powerman", "[[Strangers (The Kinks song)|Strangers]]" and "[[This Time Tomorrow (song)|This Time Tomorrow]]", all from the 1970 album, ''[[Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One]]'', as well as "[[Play with Fire (The Rolling Stones song)|Play With Fire]]" by [[The Rolling Stones]]. "[[Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)]]" by [[Peter Sarstedt]] is prominently featured as well, being played within the film more than once. Most of the album, however, features [[film score]] music composed by [[Bengal]]i filmmaker [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Merchant Ivory]] films, and other artists from [[cinema of India|Indian cinema]]. Director Wes Anderson has said that it was Satyajit Ray's movies that made him want to come to India.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karin-badt/a-conversation-with-direc_b_66013.html| title=A Conversation With Director Wes Anderson |author=Karin Badt| date=26 September 2007| work=The Huffington Post| access-date=2009-05-25}}</ref> The works include "Charu's Theme", from Ray's 1964 film, ''[[Charulata]]'', film-score cues by [[Shankar Jaikishan]] and classic works by [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]] and [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]. The film ends with the 1969 song "[[Les Champs-Élysées]]" by French singer [[Joe Dassin]], who was the son of blacklisted American director [[Jules Dassin]].<br />
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==Release==<br />
''The Darjeeling Limited'' made its world premiere on 3 September 2007 at the [[64th Venice International Film Festival|Venice Film Festival]], where it was in competition for the [[Golden Lion]] and won the Little Golden Lion. The film's North American premiere was on 28 September 2007 at the 45th annual [[New York Film Festival]], where it was the opening film.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://filmlinc.com/archive/nyff/2007/nyff.html| title=Opening night| work=The New York Film Festival - Film Society of Lincoln Center| access-date=2007-09-30}}</ref> It then opened in a limited commercial release in North America on 5 October 2007.<ref name = "Indie">{{cite web<br />
|url = http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/06/nyff_07_the_dar.html<br />
|title = NYFF '07 <nowiki>|</nowiki> Wes Anderson's "Darjeeling" to Open 45th New York Film Festival; Coen's "Country" In Centerpiece Slot<br />
|access-date = 2007-08-27<br />
|last = Brooks<br />
|first = Brian<br />
|date=June 2007<br />
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|url = http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/26/arts/EU-A-E-MOV-Italy-Venice-Festival.php<br />
|title = Movies by De Palma, Haggis and Ang Lee in competition at Venice film fest<br />
|access-date = 2007-07-26<br />
|last = Bain<br />
|first = Mia<br />
|date=July 2007<br />
|newspaper = [[International Herald Tribune]]<br />
}}</ref><br />
The film opened across [[North America]] on 26 October 2007 and in the [[UK]] on 23 November 2007, in both territories preceded in showings by ''[[Hotel Chevalier]]''. The film grossed $134,938 in two theaters in its opening weekend for an average of $67,469 for each theater.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=darjeelinglimited.htm |title=The Darjeeling Limited (2007) - Weekend Box Office |access-date=2007-09-30 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]]}}</ref><br />
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The film (widescreen edition) was released on DVD 26 February 2008 on [[Fox Searchlight]], with features limited to a behind-the-scenes documentary, theatrical trailer, and the inclusion of ''Hotel Chevalier''. The film was re-released by the [[Criterion Collection]] on 12 October 2010 on both [[DVD]] and [[Blu-ray Disc|Blu-ray]], the latter being the film's first release on the format.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
The film received generally favorable reviews from critics. {{As of|2019|07}}, on the review aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], 68% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 190 reviews, with a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] of 6.61/10. The site's consensus reads: "With the requisite combination of humor, sorrow and outstanding visuals, ''The Darjeeling Limited'' will satisfy Wes Anderson fans."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/darjeeling_limited/ |title=The Darjeeling Limited - Rotten Tomatoes |access-date=2019-07-10|website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film had an average score of 67 out of 100, based on 35 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/darjeelinglimited |title=Darjeeling Limited, The (2007): Reviews |access-date=2008-11-27 |website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> The film has a rating of 7.2 out of 10 on the [[Internet Movie Database]].<br />
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[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave 3.5 out of 4, calling the film's Indian context as one of its main highlights. Ebert singled out Anderson's script, which, according to Ebert, "uses India not in a touristy way, but as a backdrop that is very, very there."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-darjeeling-limited-2007|title=THE DARJEELING LIMITED|work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]]|author-link=Roger Ebert|author=Ebert, Roger|date=2007-10-04|access-date=2014-10-28}}</ref> Chris Cabin of Filmcritic.com gave the film 4 stars out of 5 and described Anderson's film as "the auteur's best work to date."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmcritic.com/misc/emporium.nsf/reviews/The-Darjeeling-Limited |title=The Darjeeling Limited Movie Review, DVD Release - Filmcritic.com |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Chris Cabin |publisher=Filmcritic.com}}</ref> ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum gave the film a "B+" and said "This is psychological as well as stylistic familiar territory for Anderson after ''[[Rushmore (film)|Rushmore]]'' and ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums]]''. But there's a startling new maturity in ''Darjeeling'', a compassion for the larger world that busts the confines of the filmmaker's miniaturist instincts."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20058684,00.html |title=The Darjeeling Limited |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Lisa Schwarzbaum |date=2007-09-26 |work=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref> A.O. Scott of ''[[The New York Times]]'' said that the film "is unstintingly fussy, vain and self-regarding. But it is also a treasure: an odd, flawed, but nonetheless beautifully handmade object as apt to win affection as to provoke annoyance. You might say that it has sentimental value."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://movies.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/movies/28darj.html?ex=1222574400&en=33cdcf536c9e46fc&ei=5083&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes |title=The Darjeeling Limited - Movie - Review - New York Times |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=A.O. Scott |date=2007-09-28 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref><br />
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Timothy Knight of Reel.com gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and said "Although ''The Darjeeling Limited'' pales in comparison to Anderson's best film, ''Rushmore'' (1998), it's still a vast improvement over his last, and worst film, ''[[The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou]]'' (2004)."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reel.com/movie.asp?MID=145823&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13#tabs |title=The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Timothy Knight |publisher=Reel.com |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071011005746/http://reel.com/movie.asp?MID=145823&buy=open&Tab=reviews&CID=13#tabs <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2007-10-11}}</ref> Nathan Lee of ''[[The Village Voice]]'' wrote "A companion piece to ''[[The Royal Tenenbaums|Tenenbaums]]'' more than a step in new directions, ''Darjeeling'' is a movie about people trapped in themselves and what it takes to get free&mdash;a movie, quite literally, about letting go of your baggage."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0739,lee,77873,20.html |title=Strangers on a Train |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Nathan Lee |date=2007-09-25 |newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]}}</ref> ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' critic Peter Rainer said "Wes Anderson doesn't make movies like anybody else, which is sometimes a good thing and sometimes not. His latest, ''The Darjeeling Limited'', combines what's best and worst about him."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0928/p12s06-almo.html |title='Darjeeling' of 'limited' appeal |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Peter Rainer |date=2007-09-28 |newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]}}</ref> ''[[New York Magazine]]'' critic David Edelstein said that the film is "hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://nymag.com/listings/movie/the-darjeeling-limited/ |title=The Darjeeling Limited |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=David Edelstein |magazine=[[New York Magazine]]}}</ref><br />
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Nick Schager of ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' gave the film 2 stars out of 4 and said "the ingredients that have increasingly defined Wes Anderson's films...seem, with ''The Darjeeling Limited'', to have become something like limitations."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3205 |title=The Darjeeling Limited |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Nick Schager |date=2007-09-20 |magazine=[[Slant Magazine]]}}</ref> [[Emanuel Levy]] gave the film a "C" and said "Going to India and collaborating with two new writers do little to invigorate or reenergize director Wes Anderson in ''The Darjeeling Limited'', because he imposes the same themes, self-conscious approach, and serio-comic sensibility of his previous films on the new one, confining his three lost brothers not only within his limited world, but also within a limited space, a train compartment." Levy also said "after reaching a nadir with his last feature, the $50 million folly ''The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'', which was an artistic and commercial flop, Anderson could only go upward."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=6869 |title=Film Review - Darjeeling Limited, The |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Emanuel Levy |publisher=EmanuelLevy.com}}</ref> [[Dana Stevens (critic)|Dana Stevens]] of [[Slate (magazine)|''Slate'' magazine]] wrote, "Maybe Anderson needs to shoot someone else's screenplay, to get outside his own head for a while and into another's sensibility. It's telling that his funniest and liveliest recent work was a commercial for [[American Express]]."<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2174859/fr/flyout |title=Twee Time |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Dana Stevens |date=2007-09-27 |magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]}}</ref> [[Kyle Smith (critic)|Kyle Smith]] of the ''[[New York Post]]'' gave the film 1{{frac|1|2}} stars out of 4 and said "At a stage in Anderson’s career when he should be moving on, he is instead circling back."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/09262007/entertainment/movies/wes_mess_very__limited_.htm |title=WES MESS VERY 'LIMITED' |access-date=2007-09-30 |author=Kyle Smith |date=2007-09-26 |newspaper=[[New York Post]]}}</ref><br />
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Glenn Kenny of ''[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]'' named it the fifth best film of 2007,<ref name=mc07top10>{{cite web|url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2007/toptens.shtml |title=Metacritic: 2007 Film Critic Top Ten Lists |access-date=2008-01-05 |website=[[Metacritic]] |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080102102034/http://www.metacritic.com/film/awards/2007/toptens.shtml <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date = 2008-01-02}}</ref> and Mike Russell of ''[[The Oregonian]]'' named it the eighth best film of 2007.<ref name=mc07top10/><br />
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==Awards==<br />
{|class="wikitable"<br />
! Year<br />
! Award<br />
! Category<br />
! Nominee<br />
! Result<br />
|-<br />
| 2008 || Movies for Grownups Award || Best Comedy || ''The Darjeeling Limited'' || {{Won}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2008 || [[Bodil Awards|Bodil]] || Best American Film (Bedste amerikanske film) || [[Wes Anderson]] || {{Nominated}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || Grand Prix Asturias || Best Feature || [[Wes Anderson]] || {{Nominated}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || [[New York Film Critics Online|NYFCO Award]] || Best Screenplay || [[Wes Anderson]]<br>[[Jason Schwartzman]]<br>[[Roman Coppola]] || {{Won}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || [[New York Film Critics Online|NYFCO Award]] || Top Films of the Year || ''The Darjeeling Limited'' || {{Won}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || Little Golden Lion || || [[Wes Anderson]] || {{Won}}<br />
|-<br />
| 2007 || [[Golden Lion]] || || [[Wes Anderson]] || {{Nominated}}<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{official website|http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thedarjeelinglimited|The Darjeeling Limited}} at [[Fox Searchlight]]<br />
* {{IMDb title|0838221}}<br />
* {{rotten-tomatoes|darjeeling_limited}}<br />
* {{mojo title|darjeelinglimited}}<br />
*[https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1622-the-darjeeling-limited-voyage-to-india ''The Darjeeling Limited: Voyage to India''] an essay by [[Richard Brody]] at the [[Criterion Collection]]<br />
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