Bollywood has produced another blockbuster.

Meryl Davis and Charlie White's unique, Indian-themed original dance is a hit all over the globe, with people from Michigan to Mumbai _ many of whom don't know the first thing about ice dancing _ raving about the program and forwarding videos of it to family and friends. One video alone on YouTube has racked up over 210,000 views, astronomical numbers for a figure skating program.

"It's very cool," Davis said. "Charlie and I have always been excited about being different and embracing what we could bring to the sport. It's really exciting to expand the fan base, and expand the fan base to parts of the world that haven't really experienced it before."

For the original dance, skaters are given a prescribed rhythm _ a tango, for example _ but can use any music or choreography that falls under that rhythm. This season, folk/country dance was chosen for the OD.

Although many skaters opt for American country _ the Vancouver Games might give new meaning to the term dueling banjoes _ or Spanish music, choreographer Marina Zoueva wanted something that would really make Davis and White stand out.

When she spotted an Hermes scarf with brilliant colors and Indian dancers last spring, she knew she'd found the answer.

"I thought, 'My God, that is Meryl and Charlie's original dance,'" said Zoueva, who has worked with the reigning U.S. champions for the last seven years. "I saw Meryl in that dance right away."

Davis and White loved the idea. The two have interests that reach far beyond their sport (their parents used to take them on cultural "field trips" when they traveled to competitions, and Davis is an anthropology major at Michigan) and they were eager to expose themselves to a culture they didn't know much about.

But they didn't want to simply play characters on the ice. If they were going to do this, they were going to do it right.

They called Anuja Rajendra, who combines Bollywood music and dance with exercise at her BollyFit studio in Ann Arbor, Mich. Rajendra, who once performed professionally, not only showed them how to move their arms and bodies in true Indian dance style, she suggested music and taught them about Indian culture.

"It was important for us to be able to get into the character and be able to understand why we're doing the moves we're doing and what it represents," White said. "It definitely makes it easier to get across to the audience and judges if you know what you're doing and why doing it.

"Also, it was interesting, stuff we weren't familiar with at all."