Those of you who would have seen Borat (a character played by Sacha Baron Cohen) shows and in particular his latest movie - "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan" (the lengthy title makes me feel is hollywood taken up the trend of the bollywood). It is evident how much of a dig he takes on the Kazakhstan and their culture. While its comedy after all, he does cross the lines at some portions of the movie and hurt the sentiments of the kazhaks.

The movie features a spoof Kazakh TV reporter, played by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, supposedly employed by the country's government to make a documentary on America.

That being the case, i was surprised to see that the visiting Kazhak President,Nursultan Nazarbayev, laughing off the remarks made by Borat in his movie.

The movie incidentally has topped the US and UK box office.

The President also adds "All publicity is good publicity.We are indeed concerned that Kazakhstan is not a very well-recognized country in Europe, although we have tried to make ourselves more recognized.."

We will know how cool the president is if Borat does takes up the invitation extended by the Kazhakh government to visit their country :-)...

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