Shakira will be playing Goddess Kali

If all goes well, the ‘Hips don’t lie’ girl Shakira,Grammy award winning Columbian singer and songwriter will be playing Indian hindi film Goddess Kali UK based film producer Karan Arora’s 3D VFX movie ‘Kali-the warrior Goddess’. Though the movie is not strictly speaking on the Goddess herself, but it does draw inspiration from Hindu mythology.

Throwing more light on the project and its association with the Columbia based singer Shakira, Arora said, “It’s a fiction movie. Only the look, feel and fabric are inspired by Hindu Mythology. The story is different than what people may expect.”

“We are fine tuning the association and it will be finalised after negotiations, paper work, and documentation. The casting is still in the initial stages. We started pre-production little less than a year ago. The film will be set in the imaginary world and no timelines have been set. Hence, there will not be any real location in the film. It will be similar to James Cameron’s Avatar but not as big,” Arora added. The full length two-hour-long Hindi movie will be shot either in London or in a city in Eastern Europe.

On choosing Shakira, Karan Arora said that she was chosen for two reasons; one is they wanted to cast an international star and the second is that they wanted to have someone dusky and Shakira matches both the criteria.

Kali-the warrior Goddess will be directed by Simon Hunter with technicians from USA, UK and Research team from Kolkata to work on the look of the movie.

Arora said “Kali will not be typical song and dance movie. One will not see Shakira as we are used to seeing her dance. The movie will not hurt anybody’s sentiments.”

The movie will go on floors in April next year and is slated for a 2013 release. Arora’s ‘Bhindi Bazaar’ starring Deepti Naval and Manisha Koirala is almost ready and ‘Padosi’ and ‘Lets Talk Love’ are near completion.

Hope Indian people will accept her Kali avatar.

After FIFA, Shakira to sing for bollywood

Columbian pop queen Shakira, the star of the World Cup song "Waka Waka," is to sing for a Bollywood film in the latest move by a global star to target the Indian market, a music director said Thursday.

Shakira, whose catchy Africa-themed football anthem has had a mixed critical reception, is to follow in the footsteps of fellow pop diva Kylie Minogue who made a move into Bollywood last year.

The song will be composed by a team of brothers known as Salim-Sulaiman, who collaborated with South African singers to record "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)" which is based on a traditional African soldiers' song.

"We are hoping to start recording next month," Salim Merchant told, declining to reveal the name of the movie in which Shakira's song will appear.

"There will be a lot of Latin influence in the song," Salim added.

It is commom practice in Bollywood for music companies to pre-record songs to be used later for movie soundtracks. Indian actors or actresses then lip-sync the songs during the film.

Salim and Sulaiman are up and coming music directors who have scored hits with Bollywood movies like "Kurbaan" (Sacrifice) and "Chak De India" (Come on, India).

Kylie Minogue teamed up with India's double-Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman for a song for an underwater Bollywood extravaganza "Blue". US R&B and rap stars Akon and Snoop Dogg have also both worked in Bollywood.

"Blue," a thriller that was partly shot in the Caribbean, starred action hero Akshay Kumar, Bollywood "bad boy" Sanjay Dutt and leading lady Katrina Kaif.

have a look on "Waka Waka"