In Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, the three brothers travel through India. The film follows Francis, Peter, and Jack Whitman during a train journey intended to reunite them after their father’s death.
The brothers ride the fictional Darjeeling Limited across India, although the train scenes were filmed on and around Indian railways. Their spiritual and emotional journey includes encounters with local people, religious sites, and unexpected dangers. The trip gradually reveals that their carefully planned reunion cannot avoid the unresolved tensions within their family.
The film was released in 2007 and stars Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman as the Whitman brothers. Natalie Portman appears in the short film Hotel Chevalier, which serves as a prologue to the feature.
Viewers sometimes confuse the film’s setting with its title’s historical reference. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is a real railway in India, but the brothers’ train journey in Anderson’s story is fictionalized.