Dil Pukare Aa Re Aa Re Aa Re

Singers: Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi
Music Director: S.D. Burman
Lyricists: Majrooh Sultanpuri
Genre: Filmi, Sugam, Pahadi

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Album: Jewel Thief
Year: 1967
Album Category: Hindi, Film

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A public performance of this song in 1967 symbolised the thawing of Mohammed Rafi and Lata Mangeshkar's relationship after a rift that lasted a few years. The two singers had stopped singing together sometime in 1963-1964 over a disagreement on the matter of singer royalties. Lata Mangeshkar was demanding that producers pay playback singers royalties for the sale and public performance of their songs. Her demand was supported by a few other singers but Rafi refused to back Lata. He believed that playback singers could not expect producers to pay them anything beyond the one-time fee for singing a song. This difference of opinion led to a heated exchange at one point, that ended with the two singers declaring that they would not sing together again. The dispute was followed by a sharp fall in the number of songs they sang together - they had just seven songs to their credit in 1964, none in 1965, and four in 1966. According to Lata Mangeshkar, it was S.D. Burman who helped them reconcile. It was announced at an S.D. Burman musical program conducted in 1967 at Bombay's Shanmukhananda Hall that the two singers had resolved their differences. Lata Mangeshkar and Mohammed Rafi performed this song in the program.[MR7]
This may have been the first Hindi film song to be shot in Sikkim.[MR21]
S.D. Burman had used the tune of some parts of this song earlier in the Hindi film song "Tasveeren Banti Hain" ("Jeewan Jyoti", 1953).[1]