Ranveer Singh, Alia Bhatt's new video on 'What Jhumka' has a special cameo appearance

Alia Bhatt and Ranveer Singh

The second single from Karan Johar's upcoming film 'Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani' was dropped two days back. The catchy music has everyone grooving to its beats. Now, Ranveer and Alia have treated fans with a new video on the song 'What Jhumka'.

In the small clip, Ranveer and Alia dressed in colourful casuals, are seen running after getting out of their respective cars into Dharma Productions's office to get together in the same frame in time for the beat drop of 'What Jhumka'. They make it in time and do the hook step of the song together. However, that's not the end as the video sees a special cameo by the captain of the ship-Karan Johar. Dressed in black athleisure, Johar walks into the frame and lip syncs to 'What Jhumka' startling Ranveer and Alia.

Talking about the song, 'What Jhumka' uses the melody of the hit song 'Jhumka Gira Re' from the 1966 film 'Mera Saaya'. After the release of the song, music composer Pritam took to his Twitter handle to share why they have used the music from film of the 60s and 70s. "Karan has a very strong sense of music and knows exactly what he wants. For the Rocky and Rani background soundscapes, we decided to use 60s and 70s film music. In fact, the entire film is an homage to those great musicians and great songs - the music both of us have grown up with. This goes perfectly with the script and setup of the movie. Also, Saregama coming in as the music label and having the biggest catalogue of old film music made this dream of having a lot of retro re-invention in the film a cake walk," he wrote.

Elaborating on the song 'What Jhumka', he said, "The song "What Jhumka" is an extension of that homage to one of our favourite songs, "Jhumka Gira Re," by Madan Mohan Ji, Asha Bhosle Ji, and Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. Besides, it's an honour to be able to put my name beside Madan Mohan Ji's name in the credits! The initial idea in the shoot mix was to use only the instrumental melody of the song for the shoot (thus there's no lip sync by Ranveer in the hook), but later Arijit really wanted to sing the actual song in the end, and I really liked the idea."

"Amitabh doesn't agree, and he wants only the instrumental as a hook, and we're still fighting. So how do you feel? Should we just keep the "Jhumka Gira Re" melody instrumental, or do you like the lyrics at the end?," he added putting the choice on the audience.

'Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani' also stars Dharmendra, Jaya Bachchan, and Shabana Azmi. The film will be released in theatres on July 28.