So sometime in between charting her North American take-over and crystallizing her next gem with Calvin Harris and a Scissor Sister, Kylie Minogue took a little time out to dabble in Bollywood. She was recruited to the tune of about $1 million to perform a four-minute tune composed by Slumdog Millionaire's A.R. Rahman.

But that's one of many extravagant expenses that's making Blue's producers so blue with grief. It's proving to be too expensive for any single distributor to pick it up. Also, the entire sequence has been getting feedback that ranges from negative to psychotic. And when the film ultimately finds a distributor, that kind of word-of-mouth won't help much.

It's a perfectly average-sounding pop song, if you don't consider the following reasonable qualms: (1) What's the deal with "Chiggy Wiggy"? It's an awful title for any song; (2) Rahman has scored better tunes -- and won a couple of big prizes for them, too; and (3) Kylie Minogue is known for stylized choreography and eye-popping fashion. So what's the excuse here?

Then again, this is one of those many circumstances where the gossip hinges on the word of a well-hidden source, perhaps a spurned Bollywood actress now relegated to performing bit roles on daytime soaps like this.