Bollywood, what's wrong with you? I get all excited about the new Ram Gopal Varma movie, then it turns out to suck. Then I get all excited about some new musical and all the musical numbers turn out to be non-choreographed, MTV style videos featuring people rolling around on the beach or riding motorcycles. Look, Bollywood, when you give me musical numbers you'd better give me ones where the entire cast breaks into song and dance in one location (suddenly teleporting the whole routine to Switzerland still counts as one location in the Bolly-verse) and everyone does all the steps, even if they're really bad at them. And no, having the male lead stand in one place in really tight trousers and thrust his hips to the beat does not count as dancing. The new trend in Bollywood movies is towards a music video aesthetic and, to be honest, it stinks and will cause millions of young Indian kids to grow up to be serial killers or axe murderers or something else equally horrible.

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Thankfully, there's Farah Khan . One of Bollywood's best choreographers she blew onto the scene in 1992 and unleashed her fancy footwork on flicks like DIL SE, DIL TO PAGAL HAI, MAST, MONSOON WEDDING and KABHI KUSHIE KABHIE GHAM. Then, in 2004 she made her directorial debut, MAIN HOON NA, a movie that was your typical college film about Shah Rukh Khan returning to university as an undercover agent in order to bust up a terrorist ring and it featured some truly great dance scenes including a one-take opening number. Now her follow-up film, OM SHANTI OM, is set to debut on November 9 in America, India, and the UK.�

Starring Shah Rukh Khan (again!) it opens in the Bollywood film industry of the 1960's with SRK playing a lowly extra in love with the leading lady. She gets murdered, then he dies and then not only are they both reincarnated in 2007, but so is the murderer. See, there's nothing that Bollywood can't make more complicated. Featuring cameo appearances by pretty much everyone in Bollywood (42 stars and directors appear in one musical number) this sounds dreadful when you first hear about it, but check out the trailer and see if you can resist the multi-colored, hyperbolic goods on offer. Frankly, I'm sold. If there's a big movie full of� famous stars coming out where I can turn off my brain and look at the pretty colors, I'd rather it was OM SHANTI OM than RENDITION.

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(OM SHANTI OM trailer)�