The Darjeeling Limited [SOUNDTRACK]

Satyajit Ray (Composer), Shankar Jaikishan (Composer), Ustad Vilayat Khan (Composer), Ali Akbar Khan (Composer), Fritz Reiner (Conductor), The Kinks (Performer), The Rolling Stones (Performer), Peter Sarstedt (Performer), Joe Dassin (Performer), Alexis Weissenberg (Performer)

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 25, 2007)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Abkco
• ASIN: B000VAT032
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,127 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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  #6 in	Music > World Music > India & Pakistan > India
  #72 in	Music > Classic Rock > British Invasion

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Music plays a huge part in director Wes Anderson's meticulously crafted world. For this movie set in India, he's come up with a typically wide-ranging, mind-boggling soundtrack largely culled from the mid-'60s and early '70s, despite the fact that the film is set in the present. Though Indian cinema has come to mean Bollywood for most Americans, Anderson pays tribute to art filmmaker Satyajit Ray by including music from some of his movies, mines the early (1963-1970), lesser-known oeuvre of James Ivory, and features traditional Indian tunes. This may throw fans of Bollywood's more frantic style at first (even if the upbeat go-go "Typewriter Tip, Tip, Tip," co-sung by superstar Asha Bhosle, gets close), but the music's eerie charm works in insidious ways. British Invasion pop, an enduring love of Anderson's, is represented by obscure songs from well-known combos (three cuts from the Kinks' 1970 album Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One), as well as obscure songs from obscure performers, like Peter Sarstedt's 1969 nugget "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)." Add a fantastic Rolling Stones pop tune from 1965, a couple of Western classical tracks, a popular French hit by Joe Dassin, and you have a CD that's all over the map yet oddly consistent in its eccentricity. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where do you go to my lovely?, February 12, 2008

By	E. Anderson - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

I have to admit that I haven't seen THE DARJEELING LIMITED. The reason I have picked up the soundtrack is for the music, especially by Sathajit Ray. I am fascinated by Indian music and that fascination is what led me to pick up THE DARJEELING LIMITED. I love how the soundtrack is mixed between Satyajit Ray's film scores, classical music, and classic rock songs by The Rolling Stones and The Kinks. Surprisingly enough, the combinations of these diverse sounds really worked for me. I love how the soundtrack starts off with the lovely folk song "Where Do You Go to (My Lovely)" by Peter Sarstedt. There isn't a single song on the entire soundtrack that made me want to hit the skip button on my stereo.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Soundtrack, October 31, 2007

By	Mark Roberts (Midwest US) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I was immeadiately attracted to the movie and the soundtrack when I heard the background music in the TV movie trailer.

The 2 Kinks songs featured in the trailer are a couple of my favorites. Strangers is a Dave Davies song and one of his best, it makes me very happy to see it get some exposure.

I have read that Wes Anderson was a big Kinks fan and had considered using nothing but Kinks songs on the Rushmore soundtrack. (I always thought the plotline paralleled the theme of Schoolboys in Disgrace)

He has always done a phenomenal job of selecting quirky songs that set the mood for his films, thats probably why I own more Wes Anderson movie sountracks than from any other director. Great Stuff!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wes Anderson movies have great scores., October 30, 2007

By	Jarrod Haze (Somewhere.) - See all my reviews

Wes Anderson always has great music in his movies, and this is just more evidence of that.

The Indian music is beautiful, and holds up on its own without the imagery from the film. Great to relax to.

And as for the other songs, the flow is not interrupted at all. The blending of The Kinks and the Stones with the rest of the album is flawless... and the choices of songs from these artists is perfect. "Hidden gems," you could say.

Definitely worth it.