Taxi Driver

Awards

Album Awards:
• 1954 - Filmfare Awards - Best Music Director - S.D. Burman

Trivia

Album

• The film involved several members of the Anand family, including the brothers Chetan, Dev and Vijay Anand. Dev Anand and his wife Kalpana Kartik played the lead roles in the film. Chetan Anand directed the film and his wife Uma co-wrote its story. Vijay Anand aka Goldie, the youngest brother, was credited for the film's story and dialogue.
• Dev Anand and Kalpana Kartik got secretly married on the sets of this film. They had first met during the making of "Baazi" (1951), their first film together, and fallen in love. Dev Anand had summoned a marriage registrar to the film's sets and gotten married to Kartik during a break in shooting.[1][2]
• The "City Of Bombay" was credited as a guest artist in the film's opening credits.
• Vishal Anand, the nephew of this film's lead actor Dev Anand, acted in a 1973 film of the same title.[3]
• Chetan Anand remade this film more than two decades later as "Jaaneman" (1976), also starring Dev Anand. "Jaaneman" (1976) and "Sahib Bahadur" (1976), the remake of another Navketan film, "Afsar" (1950), marked the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of Navetan Films.[4][5][6]

Song

• Jeene Do Aur Jiyo - This song was offered to Lata Mangeshkar first but she passed it on to Asha Bhosle because she disapproved of the line "chadhti jawani ke din" which she felt was vulgar.[MR4]
• Jaayen Toh Jaayen Kahan (Male) - This song topped the first Binaca Geetmala Annual program that used the countdown format.[MR8]
• Jaayen Toh Jaayen Kahan (Male) - The tune of this song's mukhda was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's song "Hey Khaniker Atithi".[7]

1. ^ Blast from the past: Dev Anand weds Kalpana Kartik during a shooting break
2. ^ Baazi (1951)
3. ^ Taxi Driver (1972)
4. ^ Jaaneman (1976)
5. ^ Sahib Bahadur (1976)
6. ^ Afsar (1950)
7. ^ Hey Khaniker Atithi - Rabindranath Tagore