Dil jale to jale
Posted on: July 14, 2009
“Taxi Driver” (1954) is too old a movie for much of the present day music lovers. Still, its songs continue to charm people even today.
And interestingly, it is only just recently that I have begun to discover the songs of this movie.
This particular song “dil jale to jale” is one that I was simply not aware of. I listened to this song for the first time just today.
I watched the picturisation too, and found that it was picturised nicely on Shiela Ramani and Dev Anand.
It is a drunkard song. It is nice to see a female singing a drunkard song for a change.
The song is sung by Lata. The lyrics of Sahir Ludhianvi are just superb. And the way this song has been composed by S D Burman is just marvellous.
It is a gem that I stumbled upon just now. And I will certainly cherish listening to this song.
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Song-Dil jale to jale (Taxi Driver) (1954) Singer-Lata, Lyrics-Sahir Ludhianvi,MD-S D Burman
Lyrics
dil jale to jale
dil jale to jale, gam pale to pale
kisi ki na sun gaaye jaa
dil jale to jale, gam pale to pale
kisi ki na sun gaaye jaa
o jeene waale
aag se aag bujhaa le
o jeene waale
o jeene waale
aag se aag bujhaa le
jag ki na sun, pyaar ki dhun
jag ki na sun, pyaar ki dhun jhoom ke gaa le
dil jale to jale, gham pale to pale
kisi ki na sun gaaye jaa
o jeene waale
ye kaliyaan ye taare
o jeene waale
o jeene waale
ye kaliyaan ye taare
chup to hain magar, takate idhar
chup to hain magar, takate idhar kahte hain saare
dil jale to jale, gham pale to pale
kisi ki na sun gaaye jaa
o jeene waale
chhed haseen taraane
o jeene waale
o jeene waale
chhed haseen taraane
bichhde jo ab, milnaa hai kab
bichhde jo ab, milnaa hai kab, koyi na jaane
dil jale to jale, gham pale to pale
kisi ki na sun gaaye jaa
dil jale to jale, gham pale to pale
kisi ki na sun gaaye jaa
9 Responses to "Dil jale to jale"
July 15, 2009 at 3:40 pm
I am discovering the songs of this movie only just now.
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January 28, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Firs tof all I would like to say thanks for this wonderful blog you have. Come quite often, though have never left behind a comment.
Very ungrateful of me!
I was searching this song, since I could hear it only faintly in the background in the opening scenes of Bombai ka Babu.
What is intriguing me now is your line that it is a drunkard song.
From the clip it looks as if both Sheila and Dev are quite sober.
Maybe there is a scene before it, where they show Sheila drinking.
Thannks for the song!
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January 28, 2010 at 3:13 pm
Thanks for finally posting a comment. Encouragements from my readers in different forms, including comments, is the fuel that drives this labour of love. So please do not be stingy in offering comments. Comments mean a lot to me, and they are invaluable to me.
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August 13, 2010 at 11:18 am
I love this song and others from the movie. Does anyone have an English translation of this song or others from Taxi Driver?
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April 17, 2016 at 10:15 am
Unbelieveable that I’ve been listening to this song for ages and never watched the video. But I don’t think there’s any context of drunkenness to the song, is there?
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July 2, 2023 at 8:47 pm
Dear Sadanand Sir,
The idea of singing other popular singer’s songs in version recording was not going down very well with the established singers in 50s & 60s and they got together to finally decide against going ahead with this Version Recordings idea of HMV.
Seeing the singers opposition, HMV decided to drop this idea of Version Recordings with top singers after that and continued with new singers like Amber Kumar, Bhushan, Sabita Banerjee and others till late 60s.
Gulshan Kumar of T Series had started his cassette business with Version recordings to compete with HMV and Polydor in late 70s.
I love to hear version recordings of well known singers of golden era. Please keep sharing.
Thanks,
Gandhi Vadlapatla
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July 14, 2009 at 1:39 pm
This is a lovely film, I think Dev has said it’s one of his favorites too. And the songs are really wonderful…:-)
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