Kazakh Director Plans Response Film to Borat

Jagshemash! One of our favorite films of 2006 may be making an unlikely comeback.

According to The New York Times, a Kazakh filmmaker is working on a sequel to Borat, the highly successful—and highly controversial—Sacha Baron Cohen documentary comedy that made citizens of his home country cringe.

Filmmaker Erkin Rakishev told the newspaper Kazakhstanskaya Pravda that he plans to start filming a project called My Brother, Borat, which he hopes will “ride on the wave of success of Borat, to take advantage of this popular image in the West to show people the real Kazakhstan” and dispel stereotypes Cohen’s film created. In Rakishev’s version, an American who enjoyed Borat comes to Kazakhstan for some cultural learnings of his own.

Hopefully, Rakishev’s film will also have far less naked elevator wrestling.

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