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Jagshemash!!!
Kazakhstan is the location for the new fictional hit movie “Borat The Movie”, played by Sacha Baron Cohen. Sacha also played a popular character called Ali G, in “Da Ali G. Show”
The Kazakhstan government were initially unhappy with the way that their people, as well as their country was portrait, Borat was accused of his character being a derogatory portrayal of Kazakhstanis. However Kazakhstan have turned the attention that Borat has brought to their country to an advantage, now seeing more tourism and interest in the country than before. However not everyone is as forgiving. Residents of a Romanian village are suing the studio behind Borat, claiming the film wrongly depicts them as rapists, abortionists, prostitutes and thieves.
The official name of the movie is, Borat: Cultural Learning’s of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat is a character from Sacha’s television shows “Da Ali G. Show”. The character Borat is much the same as he is on TV, only here he is allowed room to grow and display how truly moronic he is. Borat has been described as being like an unlikely marriage between Tom Green and Monty Python.
I LIKE YOU! Will you be my friend?? I like sex with ladies. These are just a few of the “not so smooth” pick up lines Borat has been known to use. However Borats is a fashion conscious man who is not shy to sport a mind boggling, skimpy, yellow swimsuit. In contrast his suits look like something out of the 80’s.
The Movie
Borat Sagdiyev is Kazakhstani television's top media personality and the creator of "Borat's Guide To Britain". Borat Sagdiyev is sent from his village in Kazakhstan to make a documentary about America. He leaves his mother, wife, cousin Vilo and the village rapist to travel to America with his producer.
Late night on cable TV whilst in an American hotel room he discovers Baywatch and in particular the character CJ played by Pamela Anderson.
Borat falls in love and then travels across America from Washington DC, through the south and then finally to California where he hopes to meet her.
Most of the "Kazakh" dialogue in the film is actually Polish or Hebrew, as Baron Cohen speaks Hebrew nearly fluently and uses this language around unfamiliar Americans when keeping up his character's foreignness.
This is a list of common Borat vocabulary with definitions
"Wa wa wee wa" was invented by an Israeli comedian Dovale Glikman on the TV show "Zehu Ze" and is in popular use in Israel
Khrum - Male genitalia. Used to refer to the scrotum or testicles as well as the penis. Notice that "khrum" in Russian means temple, church and is seen as something sacred.
Dzienkuje - "thank you" Sometimes used as a greeting in the opening of the Borat segments of Da Ali G Show.
Jagshamesh - "how are you?"
Krutzouli - small or insignificant animal of ambiguous identity, placed not too far below women in the fictional Kazakh caste system. In Poland, "Krasula" ("Pretty Cow") is also a common name given to cows.
Vazhin - vagina
Running of the Jew - an annual traditional festival in which the 300 bravest men of Kazakhstan chase large papier-mache caricatures of Jews on the streets and chase them into wells, while spectators break the eggs they lay, as well as throwing stones and potatoes at the Jews. "It is for the childrens" as quoted by Borat in his interview on "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross".
Festival, or Feast, of Shurik - annual one-day festival when it is appropriate to have sexual intercourse with one's sister, animals, and minors; takes place the day following the "Running of the Jew".
Sport of Shurik - Sport similar to 'baseballs' where they take a dog and shoot it in a field, and then have a party; played during Festival of Shurik.
