We stay on the Darjeeling railway -- sort of -- for today's Global Hit. That's a song from the soundtrack to the movie "The Darjeeling Limited." The tune is the classic French pop song "Les Champs-Elysees" by Joe Dassin.

In the off-beat musical mind of filmmaker Wes Anderson, Les Champs-Elysees works just fine as an association with Darjeeling. The soundtrack also features songs by the Kinks and the Rolling Stones. But Anderson mostly keeps things regional.

He offers up the deep strings of the sarod, played by Indian classical composer Ali Akbar Khan. Ali Akbar Khan composed this work for another film. The song first appeared in a Bollywood movie called "The Householder."

That came out in the mid-sixties. In fact the bulk of the tunes from "The Darjeeling Limited" come from other movies -- mostly Bollywood flicks.

Wes Anderson was drawn in particular to the music of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. He's well-known in both Bollywood AND Hollywood.

And Ray serves as the ideal bridge for American audiences dropped into Anderson's odd tale of three brothers on a train voyage across India.

As in Wes Anderson's past films, The Darjeeling Limited isn't just about the story.

The movie serves as a quirky delivery system for delightful and unfamiliar music.