Dil To Pagal Hai

Awards

Album Awards:
• 1997 - Filmfare Awards - Best Music Director - Uttam Singh

Trivia

Album

• After the success of the music of "Darr" (1993), Yash Chopra had again wanted to get Shiv - Hari on board for this film. However, the duo had turned down the offer due to time constraints. In fact, Shiv - Hari never composed for Hindi films again after "Darr".[1]
• When Shiv - Hari turned down Yash Chopra's offer to compose for this film, Uttam Singh, a veteran of the film industry who had never composed solo for a film, got a new lease of life in his career. After composing music for a few films in the 1980s as part of the Uttam - Jagdish duo, this was Uttam Singh's first film as a solo music director. The film's music was very successful and won him his only Filmfare Award for Best Music Director.
• Juhi Chawla had once claimed that she was responsible for Karishma Kapoor's stardom since many films she had rejected had gone to Karishma and gone on to be big hits. This was one such film. "Raja Hindustani" (1996) was another of those films.[2][3]
• Yash Chopra had considered "Tevar" and "Maine Toh Mohabbat Kar Li" as the film's title before finalising the one it was released with. Yash Raj Films held on to the title "Tevar" till 2014 when they relinquished it for a film starring Arjun Kapoor.[4][5]
• Karishma Kapoor, who won the National Film Award and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress for this film, got this role only after several actors, including Juhi Chawla, Manisha Koirala and Aishwarya Rai, had passed it over.
• In 2008, Yash Raj Films re-packaged and released a song, "Kaisi Hai Beqarari Chanda Ki Chandni", sung by Kumar Sanu and Lata Mangeshkar, which had been recorded for this film but remained used. The song's release was apparently a Diwali gift for Lata Mangeshkar and her fans. It is said that this song was replaced by "Pyar Kar" sung by Udit Narayan and Lata Mangeshkar after a financial disagreement between Kumar Sanu and Yash Chopra. Sanu's next song for Yash Raj Films came about two decades later, for the film "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" (2015).[6][7][8]
• This was Shiamak Davar's first Hindi film as a choreographer.
• Akshay Kumar's next film with Yash Raj Films came 11 years later - "Tashan" (2008). He had decided not to work with them for some time because of his disagreement with Yash Chopra on his fee for this film.[9]

Song

• Ek Duje Ke Vaaste - This song, which played in the film's opening credits, featured on screen many of the film's crew members along with their spouses. Among others, the song featured Yash and Pamela Chopra, and Aditya Chopra and his wife at the time, Payal Khanna.
• Le Gayi Le Gayi - Actor Shahid Kapoor joined Shiamak Davar's Dance Institute as a student when he was around fifteen years old and won the institute's best dancer award when he had graduated from it. Shiamak Davar then used Shahid as a dancer in two Hindi film songs choreographed by him - this song and "Kahin Aag Lage Lag Jaye" ("Taal", 1999).[10][11]
• Le Gayi Le Gayi - In the film, this song was followed by a couple of lines of the same song sung by Udit Narayan. His lines were not part of the music release.

1. ^ Pandit Hari Prasad Chaurasia interview
2. ^ Juhi Chawla interview
3. ^ Raja Hindustani (1996)
4. ^ Did you know?
5. ^ Tevar (2014)
6. ^ Lata Mangeshkar's song is Yash Chopra's Diwali gift
7. ^ Kaisi Hai Beqarari Chanda Ki Chandni - Kumar Sanu, Lata Mangeshkar
8. ^ Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015)
9. ^ Tashan (2008)
10. ^ Come dance with me
11. ^ Kahin Aag Lage Lag Jaye (Taal, 1999)