After Akon for Shah Rukh Khan’s Ra.One it is now the Latin American sensation Shakira’s turn to rock in a Bollywood song.

The number, a frenzied dance track to be filmed on South African model Candice Boucher for the film featuring entrepreneur Sachin Joshi, will be recorded in the next couple of months.

Shakira is no stranger to India. She has performed live in Mumbai and other cities in 2007 and has repeatedly expressed a desire to be part of the Bollywood film industry. Says a source, “Sachin Joshi who’s helming and starring in the project is in touch with Shakira and she has agreed to sing for Salim-Sulaiman. The lyrics would be in English but with a smattering of easy Hindi. It won’t be a duet like the song Kylie Minogue sang on Anthony D’Souza’s Blue. It’d be a Shakira solo dhamaka.”

Composer Salim of Salim-Sulaiman confirms the happening. “It would be a very sensuous cabaret kind of song.”