The central Asian republic of Kazakhstan has been nursing a grudge against British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen since his 2006 film Borat - but now it plans to get its own back, DPA reported.
Kazakh director Erkin Rakishev is working on a film called My Brother Borat, which aims to show foreign audiences that Borat's Kazakhstan was purely Cohen's invention, media reports said Saturday.
In Borat, Cohen played a Kazakh reporter who travels to America to learn about its culture, embarrassing himself and his hosts with his racist, misogynistic comments along the way.
Kazakhstan is portrayed as a backward state in which prostitution, incest, criminality and anti-Semitism are everyday occurrences.
The state's authoritarian president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, was so enraged by the film that he complained to then British prime minister Tony Blair.
In Rakishev's film, a young American will travel around the central Asian republic to examine Borat's supposed home with his own eyes.
He meets Borat's brother and goes with him to his home village. But this turns out not to be in Kazakhstan - as Borat is in fact English.
"We want to profit from Borat's success," said Rakishev.
The film is set to appear in cinemas in 2011.