Anecdotes for
The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

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• Natalie Portman, who appeared in a cameo, traveled to the film's location in Jodhpur, India, to shoot for about half an hour and then spent 10 days exploring India afterward.
  
  
• Wes Anderson said that part of his inspiration for The Darjeeling Limited (2007) was The River (1951), and more specifically that he owes a debt of gratitude to Martin Scorsese for screening the film personally for him.
  
  
• Director Wes Anderson chose not to have an original score for his film, opting, instead, to borrow original music from Indian films including those from legendary Indian auteur Satyajit Ray's films.
  
  

• In order to achieve a constant limp while filming, Owen Wilson placed a small lime in his shoe.
  
  
• Most of the props used on the train sets were handmade or decorated, including the entire dining room set.
  
  
• The character of Vladimir Wolodarsky in Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), was named after Wallace Wolodarsky, who played Brendan
  
  
• Throughout the whole movie, none of the characters actually smoke a full cigarette.
  
  
• The 11 suitcases seen in the movie are created by Marc Jacobs for Luis Vuitton and they are decorated with giraffes, rhinoceros and antelopes designed by Eric Chase Anderson, the director's brother. They all have the initials JLW.
  
  
• Towards the end of the film, on the train 'Bengal Lancer', the painted portrait on the wall of the compartment is of director Satyajit Ray.
  
  

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