recently chance watching anderson's darjeeling limited anderson sense things drew theater heard hoopla anderson crew included familiar names lydia dean pilcher producer cindy tolan casting director finally title film darjeeling limited feeling film show parts beautiful hill town darjeeling magical darjeeling train disappointed film darjeeling weird train cross palace wheels chapra local sexy stewardesses serve sweet lime named darjeeling limited stewardess indian train un-indian times feeling watching fantasy movie story line indian view point cliche ridden travelogue gora brothers travel mythical train attain kind spiritual bliss narcotic laden cough syrup occasional stops temples relevance mystical spiritual india saves western soul kind films harm making films western audience india earn tourism dollars process oversimplification indian life feels quite condescending brothers spiritual change witness death funeral indian remote village stoic nature funeral accompanied kind placid indifference life brought brothers closer father's funeral busy porche garage mother attending funeral brothers fail understand life indian villagers lead result socio-economic circumstances country highest infant mortality rates deaths minor perturbation people lives live great message enlightenment western audience death acted shock therapy rich spoiled kids case film shot world peru guatemala honduras burma train named express tashkent limited film moments prologue short film titled hotel chevalier quite enjoyable short opening sequence bill murray funny relevance rest film technically film looked good nice photography great music played jack's ipod time humor tacky times typical anderson film casting owen wilson enjoyable fans portraits indian greats gandhi patel tilak train interesting trains shots train showed portrait satyajit looked fleeting moment wall joke feeling film reached dimension brothers real indian train experienced real india process helped realize mother chose life leads anderson opportunity make great film blew 