Tina Turner will star in Indian film

Tina Turner will play an Indian goddess in a new Merchant Ivory film and sing Indian classical songs, a newspaper report said Tuesday.

Famous for power-packed musical performances in high heels and leather miniskirts, the 64-year-old singer will star in “The Goddess,” the Times of India said.

Ismail Merchant, a producer known for making lush period films with director James Ivory, said Turner had spent two weeks in India and had been practicing classical music with Zakir Hussain, India’s maestro of the tabla, a small set of drums. “She’ll have to sing in Latin and Sanskrit for the film,” he said.