Amruta, the wife of the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis, has quietly entered Bollywood as a singer. She has already recorded two songs, for Kunal Kohli's upcoming love story, Phir Se, and Prakash Jha's soon-to-release cop drama, Jai GangaaJal. “I heard the song she had sung for Kunal Kohli and liked her voice. It's lovely, silky and very deep, I felt it was just what our devotional song, 'Sab dhan maati', required so I asked my composers, Salim-Sulaiman, to try her out. They liked her too and we recorded the track last month in two sessions over a couple of hours,“ informs Jha.

The film, which features Priyanka Chopra as the protagonist, has as many as 12 songs and all of them play in the background. This particular song is part of a sequence which features Jha himself. “I play Priyanka's junior, Deputy Superintendent of Police, BP Singh, and the song appears at a character transformation moment,“ he informs.

And what was the CM's reaction to the song? “I have no idea but Amruta was a pleasure to work with... Very simple, no airs, enthusiastic. She quietly came, recorded the song and left. The music directors later wanted to re-dub certain portions and without any fuss she came back and did the needful,“ he says warmly.