Raj and Simran are two young Indians who grew up in London. Simran's father, Baldev, a strict shopkeeper who misses Punjab, has promised her to the son of an old friend, a man she has never met. Before the wedding he lets her take a month-long train trip across Europe with her friends: on the train she meets Raj, a carefree rich boy, and in the Swiss Alps they fall in love. When the family flies to Punjab for the wedding, Raj follows, but instead of running away with Simran he sets out to win over her family. It was Aditya Chopra's first film, produced by his father Yash Chopra, with Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol. It came out in October 1995 and a Mumbai cinema still shows it every day.
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Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (often just DDLJ; the title means "the big-hearted will take the bride") is the love story of Raj and Simran, two young Indians who grew up in London. Simran has been promised to a man in Punjab she has never met, but she falls for Raj on a train trip across Europe. In London start at Trafalgar Square, where her father feeds the pigeons, then Leicester Square, with the bronze statue of the couple, and King's Cross, where the train leaves.
The heart of the film is in Switzerland, around Gstaad: Zweisimmen station, where they miss the train, the Gstaad Promenade where Simran dances, the church of Saanen and its station, and the church interior in Montbovon. From Interlaken, home of the Yash Chopra statue, a day trip by train climbs to the snow of the Jungfraujoch.
The Punjab scenes were shot in India: the mustard fields near Gurgaon, which cannot be visited as a precise spot, and the final train at Apta station, two hours from Mumbai. In Mumbai the Maratha Mandir cinema has shown the film every morning since 1995. London, Switzerland and India are three separate trips: plan one at a time.
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A real filming location. The film opens here: Baldev Singh, Simran's father, feeds the pigeons on his way to work and dreams of the fields of Punjab he left many years ago.
Access · Public square, always open. Feeding the pigeons, as Baldev does, is no longer allowed here.
A real filming location. In the song "Ghar Aaja Pardesi" Baldev walks to work along the Thames: the Embankment, Westminster Bridge with Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, then The Mall toward Buckingham Palace. In 1995 the London Eye did not exist yet.
Access · Public bridge and riverside walks, always open and busy during the day.
A real filming location. Raj and a friend plan their train trip across Europe in front of the cinemas, and Simran and her friend walk past the Odeon. Since December 2025 a bronze statue of Raj and Simran stands in the square: the first Indian film on the Scenes in the Square trail of film statues.
Access · Public square and garden, open every day. The statue is free to see, with the other film statues of the trail.
A real filming location. The Europe trip starts here: Raj and Simran, each with their friends, leave by train, and Raj runs along the platform to catch it. When they come back they part on the same platforms, 6 and 7.
Access · Working station, open every day. The concourse is free; the platforms are behind the ticket gates. Eurostar trains to Paris leave from St Pancras, next door.
A real filming location. Simran rides down the long escalators to the southbound platform, and in another scene Raj plays the trumpet in the station.
Access · Working Underground station: you need a valid ticket or a contactless card to pass the gates. Its escalators are among the longest on the Underground.
A real filming location. The morning after a night of jokes, Raj comes to apologise to Simran and her friends, and the apology turns out to be another trick. In the film it looks like another European city; it was shot in Interlaken, on the main avenue along the Höhematte meadow.
Access · Public street and park, always open.
A real filming location. Simran stops to buy a cowbell, Raj keeps her talking and the two miss the train to Zurich: they are left behind together. Parts were shot in the car park beside the tracks and at the ticket windows.
Access · Working station, open every day. The kiosk of the film is gone and nothing marks the scene. Stay off the tracks.
A real filming location. After missing the train, Raj and Simran spend the night in Gstaad. Simran, drunk for the first time, runs and dances down the main street in most of the song "Zara Sa Jhoom Loon Main", takes chocolates from a confectioner's and rides back to the hotel in a horse carriage.
Access · Car-free street with shops and cafés, open every day. Early Beck, the family bakery on the Promenade since 1910, sells local sweets.
A real filming location. The snow scenes of the song "Zara Sa Jhoom Loon Main", with Raj and Simran among the peaks, were shot up here at about 3,450 metres. The station has a Bollywood restaurant, renovated by Jungfrau Railways in 2014.
Access · Paid mountain railway, open all year and expensive. It is cold and windy even in summer, and the altitude can tire children and people with heart problems. Book on jungfrau.ch and check the weather on the webcam before you go.
A real filming location for the inside of the church. Simran kneels to pray for the husband she has been promised, while Raj teases her and then makes a wish of his own. The outside seen in the film is Saanen; the inside is this small neo-Gothic church in the canton of Fribourg.
Access · Parish church: the inside is not always open outside services. Check before you travel.
A real filming location for the outside of the church. The white church with the tall pointed steeple seen before the prayer scene is St Mauritius in Saanen; the inside was filmed in another church, in Montbovon.
Access · Working village church. The outside can always be seen; be quiet inside during services.
A real filming location. At this small station and on the bridge just outside it, Simran tells Raj that her father is sending her to India to marry a man she has never met. She walks away, and Raj waits to see if she will turn around.
Access · Working station and public road. Do not stop on the level crossing or on the tracks.
Reported as a filming location. Guides to the film place here the scene of Raj and Simran fishing together, seen as a memory during the song "Tujhe Dekha To". The exact spot on the lake is not known.
Access · Lake with a public lakeside path, free. The exact spot of the scene has not been identified.
Not a film location: a homage. Yash Chopra produced the film and set many Hindi love stories in Switzerland. In 2016 Interlaken put his bronze statue, a copy of the one in his Mumbai studio, in the Kursaal garden.
Access · Public garden, free.
A real filming location. The film ends here. In the story it is a station in Punjab: Simran's father finally lets go of her hand and tells her to go and live her life, and she runs after the train where Raj holds out his hand. It was shot at this small country station near Mumbai, used in many Hindi films.
Access · Working country station with few services. Never walk on the tracks: some trains pass without stopping.
Not a film location: the cinema where the film has been shown since it came out in October 1995. The morning show is still Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge every day, and the audience sings along and cheers the famous lines.
Access · One show a day at 11:30, regular ticket about 50 rupees (October 2025). The film lasts over three hours, with an interval. Check the time at the box office before you go.
In London.
Since December 2025 a bronze statue of the couple stands in Leicester Square, on the Scenes in the Square trail.
Yes.
The Jungfraujoch is at about 3,450 metres and open all year; it is expensive, cold and windy, and the station has a Bollywood restaurant.
Yes.
The Maratha Mandir cinema has one show a day at 11:30, and the audience sings along.
No.
Feeding the pigeons in Trafalgar Square is no longer allowed.
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Baldev feeds the pigeons (opening scene)
Walk ~8 min
Walk ~5 min
Planning the Europe trip; the Raj and Simran statue (2025)
Walk ~18 min
Baldev's walk to work (song Ghar Aaja Pardesi)
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Leaving for Europe and coming back
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By metro · ~14 min
Simran on the escalator
By metro · ~16 min
By metro · ~14 min
Walk ~16 min
By metro · ~18 min
Walk ~10 min
Walk ~10 min
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London
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Pub on a site where The Peacock inn stood from 1562, right by Angel tube station from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
pub€€
Noble House, 3-5 Islington High Street, London N1 9LQ
Restored Soho pub with a dining room upstairs, a short walk from St James's Church, Piccadilly
gastropub€€
17 Denman Street, London W1D 7HW
Oyster bar open since 1916, a few steps from St James's Church, Piccadilly, seen in Bridgerton
seafood€€€
11-15 Swallow Street, London W1B 4DG
Switzerland
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GaultMillau-rated bistro with a terrace on the Gstaad Promenade, steps from where Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge was filmed
Mediterranean€€€
Promenade 54, 3780 Gstaad
Stone-oven pizza and handmade pasta in the Victoria-Jungfrau, facing the Höhematte near the Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge spots
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Victoria-Jungfrau Grand Hotel & Spa, Höheweg 41, 3800 Interlaken
Village inn known for its fried sausages and Swiss-only wine list, near Saanen church from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
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Dorfstrasse 74, 3792 Saanen
Mumbai
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Pav bhaji counter open since 1966 at Tardeo junction, a short walk from Maratha Mandir, home of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
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166-A, Tardeo Road Junction, Tardeo, Mumbai 400034
Irani-run kebab house over 90 years old in Nagpada, about 1 km from Maratha Mandir, where Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge still plays
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184/196 Dimtimkar Road, opposite Nagpada Police Station, Nagpada, Mumbai 400008
Gujarati vegetarian canteen on Tardeo Road since 1963, about 1 km from Haji Ali Dargah on a Mumbai day of Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
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248 Karai Estate, Tardeo Road, Mumbai 400007
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