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| Darjeeling: Eat, pray and love the mount... | For every Bengali, the romance, nostalgia and a certain pride around Darjeeling is not just about the famous Rajesh Khanna-Sharmila Tagore song of Aradhana. While for generations of Indians, the song Mere Sapnon Ki Rani from the 1969 film, where Rajesh Khanna in a jeep serenaded the coy Sharmila Tagore on the iconic toy train, is a trigger to visit the Queen of Hills, Bengalis often bask in the glory of a critically acclaimed 1962 Satyajit Ray film called Kangchenjunga shot almost entirely in Darjeeling and its Mall area where myriad Bengali characters, including members of an aristocratic family, unfold in all their layers and inner turmoil in a drama heightened by the nature. | 10-Feb-2015 |