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Music Director A. R. Rahman's debut Hindi film with an original score, all previous Hindi scores were dubbed from his Tamil scores.

It was after the release of Rangeela that Aamir Khan stopped attending Filmfare Awards. He had become upset that he did not win, or even be nominated for, the 1995 Best Actor award for his performance in the film. He also felt that for films like Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar (1992) and Hum Hain Rahi Pyaar Ke (1993) that he should have gotten recognition from Filmfare, and after these incidents he became upset with Filmfare. But after failing to receive recognition for Rangeela is when Aamir had had enough and decided to shun Filmfare altogether.

Gulshan Grover's character is an impersonation of noted Hollywood director Steven Spielberg. His character's name is Steven Kapoor, a Bollywood director who aspires to compete with Hollywood directors like Spielberg and Coppola. Coincidently, Steven Kapur is the name of famous singer Apache Indian.

John Abraham's tapori look in the film Welcome Back (2015) was inspired from Aamir Khan's look in the film.

The actress during the shoot with Jackie Shroff during one sequence who complains about a lot and is accompanied with her mother is a parody on Sridevi. It was said during the 80s, when Sridevi was at her peak of her success her mother was very dominating on set and ordered producers and directors.

The film was conceived with Sridevi in mind for the title role.

Manish Malhotra, a celebrity fashion designer, became a known fashion designer after he designed for Urmila in the film.

Aamir Khan's Tapori look and Urmila's glamorous look had become quite famous those days.

It is the single longest running movie in Nepali theaters. When it was out of a major theater in Kathmandu, people protested and brought it back for another run.

Salman Khan was considered for Jackie Shroff's role.

Anil Kapoor was offered Jackie Shroff's role but declined due to lack of dates.

The scene in which Producer PC mentions that the film Hum Aapke Hain Koun! (1994) was actually his concept and his script but he gave the script to Sooraj Bharjatrya, is actually a parody on Bollywood Producers who all tell false stories about their achievements in the industry.

This movie was remade in Hollywood in the year 2004 as Win a date with Tad Hamilton.

Madhur Bhandarkar, who worked as an Assistant Director for the movie, has a special appearance as Movie Producer P.C's Assistant.

Raveena Tandon was also initially considered for the main lead along with Sridevi. However, later Urmila was cast.

Aamir Khan used his own clothes for his character, and he took some old clothes from his friends too.

Hip Hop group Black Eye Peas sampled the song " Hai Rama" for their song "Mare".

Aditya Narayan, the son of Udit Narayan makes an appearance in the song Rangeela Re and he also sings some lines in the song.

AR Rahman won the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music Talent which was the very first award of its kind after the death of legendary Music Director RD Burman.

Jackie Shroff won the Filmfare best supporting actor award.

The music of the film was launched by AR Rahman's mother Kareema in September 1995.

Rangeela marked the return of the then 62-year-old veteran playback singer Asha Bhosle, who sang two super hit songs for the movie. Asha, like her sister Lata Mangeshkar, had long retired from accepting playback singer awards, but she received the Filmfare Special Award that year for her rendition of the song "Tanha Tanha".

In the opening song "Rangeela Re",now famous choreographer and director Remo D'Souza appear as a background dancer.

The film was a major breakthrough for Urmila's career it also established her as a famous actress.

Gulshan Grover's character of director Steven Kapoor is referred to Steven Spilberg and Shekar Kapoor.

Shah Rukh Khan was offered the role of Munna but declined since he didn't think a tapori character would go well with his "romantic image" that he had begun developing at the time.

Steven Kapoor is actually a parody on Shekhar Kapoor, a director from the UK who didn't fit in well with the industry because of their ways of working and often compared himself to Hollywood directors when he was in the industry. He often would walk out of projects because this attitude and eventually he ended making films in Hollywood.

Despite its success Aamir Khan never worked with RGV and Urmila again.

Bollywood Brass Band did a instrumental version of all the songs called "Rangeela Medley". This was in the album Rahmania.

The song Tanhaa Tanhaa Yahan Pe was remixed in the album BMW 3 Bad Mad Wicked by DJ Jiten. This was the first ever remix done for the song in 1996.

In 1977, producer R.C.Kumar was making a film titled "Rangeela" starring Feroz Khan, directed by Brij Sadanah. The film got shelved.

The Cap Aamir wearing in Rangeela is the same cap he is wearing in Andaz Apna Apna

Ashwini Bhave was in the running for the lead role.

The shooting of Rangeela was started in 1994 with Goa outdoor schedule. There were some scenes between Jackie and Urmila and also the song tanha tanha picturized.

Film's cinematographer WB Rao also played a small role appearing as a cinematographer to director Steven Kapoor (played by Gulshan Grover).

To get into the role of a Mumbaiya Tapori, Aamir Khan actually spent some of his time with Real Taporis in the real slums of Mumbai. Aamir worked on his diction, dialogue delivery and body language to portray the character convincingly.

Director Ramgopal Verma was apparently not happy with Saroj Khan's choreography of 'Tanha Tanha'. So he appointed Ahmed Khan to choreograph rest of the songs.

Rangeela remains Director RGV's only successful musical film. After that he shifted his focus to thriller and gangster films. Although he attempted to make another love story movie 'Mast' in 1999. That film could not replicate the success of Rangeela.

The movie name 'Rangeela' was based on the fictional movie's name which introduces actress 'Mili' played by Urmila Matondkar. Actress Urmila Matondkar who became synonymous after the success of the film besides two established male superstars Jackie Shroff and Aamir Khan. The term 'Rangeela' in Hindi is a male term and because of that Ms.Urmila would often be termed by the media as 'Rangeeli' (female term) in publications and in popular culture.

Director Ram Gopal Varma often consider 'Rangeela' as his worst film.

Music composer A.R. Rahman also did the background score for this film.

Actress Urmila Matondkar was not a trained dancer while the time to filming of the movie.

Child actor turned choreographer Ahmed Khan's debut film as the independent choreographer.

Actor Rajesh Joshi who played Aamir Khan's friend Pakiya died soon after in a road accident. He was actor Manoj Joshi's sibling.

Actor Aamir and Director RGV fell out after Rangeela, both vowing they'd never work with the other.

While one-half of Urmila's Tanha Tanha number was shot in Goa, the other half had to be shot in Madh Island. And no one could tell the difference.

According to Director RGV 'Rangeela' was homage to two of his favorite Hollywood films, The Sound Of Music and Singing In The Rain. The choreography was inspired by 'Singing In The Rain'.

According to Director RGV one of his favorite film 'The Sound Of Music' was the first film he had seen which had no antagonist. So he consciously avoided negative characters in Rangeela.

Ram Gopal Varma previously worked with Urmila in the movie 'Drohi'. During Drohi, the choreographer didn't turn up for a song. So he asked Urmila if she would dance on her own and she agreed. And she did a great job. That's when the director decided to make Rangeela with Urmila.

Aamir's character was based on a street thug Director RGV knew in Hyderabad. When he narrated Rangeela to Aamir he agreed immediately.

The Aguada fort in Goa has been an integral part of a lot of iconic scene in this movie.

To get into the role of Munna - a tapori - for Rangeela, actor Aamir Khan spent time with real vagabonds in slums of Mumbai. This helped Aamir work on his diction, dialogue delivery and body language to portray the character convincingly.