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The film was shot in India and featured some stunning locations that
the West will now see and talk about. But as with many other strange
things in Hollywood, the Darjeeling Limited was shot mainly in Jodhpur
and the sand dunes of Osian. The hunting lodge of the former Maharana
of Mewar at Nahar Magra was opened up after 40 years and given an
instant cleaning for the shoot.
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The Darjeeling Limited,
a film directed by Wes Anderson, was released in the US in the first
week of October, receiving rave reviews from the arty circuit. Anderson
is of Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums fame, and this current film stars
Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Camilla Rutherford.
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Furniture was bought from antique shops in Jodhpur, and several other
props ranging from cotton prints and Bengal handloom saris were put
to use to create the sets.
But the most stunning set of all was the real train painted and re-created
as the Darjeeling Limited. Director Wes Anderson had been fascinated
by the ‘truck art’ in India and so he got his art director
to interview several hundred local truck painters before a select
group was chosen to paint up the interiors of a train bogey in which
the heroes of the movie traveled across India.
So all in all a cocktail of Rajasthan desert scenery, a set of three
crazy brothers in search of nirvana (where else but in India?), lots
of strange props including talking animals, and an unpredictable storyline,
has been getting a lot of notice from critics and movie buffs in the
West.If the film is released in India we can get to see for ourselves.
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