Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The Darjeeling Limited

Here is the synopsis:

Patricia Whitman lives in the U.S. along with her husband, and three sons, Francis, Peter and Jack. All of a sudden she decides to re-locate to the foothills of the Himalayas in India. She does not return back even when her husband passes away. After their dad's funeral, the sons do not see each other for about a year. Then Francis invites them to India so that they could go and see their mother, who is now known as Sister Patricia. The trio individually board the Darjeeling Limited train in Jodhpur aided by Francis' assistant, Brendan, who has meticulously prepared detailed itineraries for their stay. At their first stop they alight from the train to get blessings at a Shiv Mandir, buy a snake, and Francis ends up getting his expensive shoe stolen. The snake gets lose, and they are reprimanded by the Train's Guard and confined to their room but not before Jack has an intimate sexual encounter with Rita, their stewardess. They alight at the next stop to get blessings at the Gurdwara. Then their journey is interrupted when their train is accidentally shunted to an unknown railway track. They do resume their journey, and get into a physical altercation with each other, resulting in the Guard asking them to alight at the next station, Dhelana, and Brendan quiting his job. The trio end up rescuing two of three young boys, staying there overnight to attend the funeral of the deceased boy. They resume their journey via road and make it to the Himalayas where they will surprise Patricia, who is living there albeit in fear at the moment due to a large man-eating tiger on the lose nearby. But it is the brothers who will be in for a surprise when they wake up the next morning.

I watched this movie last Wednesday. I laught too much!! and remembered such great souvenirs about India :-)
A movie to see and see again, with 3 great actors (Adrian Brody, Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman).

1 comment:

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