It’s kind of a genius idea, and even though it’s been done already (more on that in a second), Kazakh director Erkin Rakishev is planning to make “My Brother, Borat,” a rather late response to Sacha Baron Cohen’s film.
The film, being made to counter the negative perception Kazakhstan has received thanks to “Borat,” will follow “an American fan of Mr. Cohen’s movie, which is banned in Kazakhstan, travels there and finds a prosperous and modern state.” Again, sort of a great idea but uh, “Borat” is already four years old so it seems to be coming a few years late which can’t help the belief that the nation is a bit behind the times.
As a commenter in the NYTimes story notes, it also seems someone has beaten Rakishev to the punch. Director Tokhtar Karsakbaev made “Borat’s Repentance,” written by and starring Nate Fleming, a short film way back in 2008 which more or less riffs on the same idea with a Borat-like American being amazed at all the modern conveniences of contemporary Kazakhstan. Watch the first part below: