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The Darjeeling Limited is a drama-comedy film of a journey through India by three brothers, played by Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman. The fifth feature film by director Wes Anderson, it was written by him, Roman Coppola and Schwartzman. The film also stars Waris Ahluwalia, Amara Karan, Barbet Schroeder and Anjelica Huston, with Natalie Portman, Irfan Khan and Bill Murray in cameo roles.

Plot

Three estranged brothers, Francis, Peter and Jack, take a train ride through India a year after the death of their father. The fictional long-distance train "Darjeeling Limited", apparently named after the short narrow-gauge Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, provides the backdrop for the brothers trying to grow closer together.

Hotel Chevalier

Wes Anderson also wrote and directed the 2007 short film Hotel Chevalier, starring Jason Schwartzman and Natalie Portman. The 13-minute film acts as a prologue to The Darjeeling Limited. Originally attached to festival screenings of The Darjeeling Limited, it was removed during the limited theatrical release and instead made available on Apples iTunes Store as a free download. On October 26, 2007, Hotel Chevalier was removed from iTunes in favor of releasing it in theaters with the wide release of The Darjeeling Limited.

Themes and motifs

The Darjeeling Limited includes many of Andersons signature themes and styles, such as forbidden love, parental abandonment and/or death, sibling rivalries, and timeless fashions and props. Anderson has revealed that The River by Jean Renoir, the films of Satyajit Ray (to whom the movie is dedicated) and documentaries on India by Louis Malle were his inspirations for this movie.