Uttam Singh made his debut as a solo music composer with Yash Chopra's musical DIL TO PAGAL HAI (1997) starring Shah Rukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit and Karisma Kapoor in lead roles. The music of the film was highly appreciated among the masses and continues to be iconic. Earlier, Uttam Singh used to compose music jointly with Jagdish Khanna (the duo was credited as Uttam-Jagdish) and DIL TO PAGAL HAI (1997) was the first Hindi film for which he composed the music solo.