Alisha Chinai won the 2005 Filmfare Best Female Playback Award and the 2005 Bollywood Movie Award - Best Playback Singer Female for the song, while Gulzar bagged the best lyricist award in almost all major award functions including the IIFA and Filmfare Awards, for the song.
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It was voted as the song of the year by three radio stations, including Lotus FM, a station popular among the Indian diaspora in South Africa.
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Kajra Re is inspired from a folk song from the Braj region, in which the celebrated kohl-lined eyes are Lord Krishna's, and belongs to the Qawaali genre with western fusion.
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Amitabh Bachchan, after initially hearing the song, demanded a few changes, but the director, Shaad Ali, and producer, Aditya Chopra, convinced him against them.