After the Borat movie made $26.4 million in its debut this weekend - putting it in a position to become the most successful comedy of all time - the man often thought to be the inspiration for Borat is wondering why he's been left out. Mahir Cagri, the Turkish reporter who bears an uncanny resemblance to Sacha Baron Cohen's character, became an internet sensation in the late 90's with his amateurish, picture heavy website, complete with candids of him playing ping pong and tanning in a thong. Random phrases in broken English litter the site, including, "I like to take foto-camera (amimals , towns, nice nude models and peoples)…" and "I like sex" and of course the always awesome, "My eyes green … I live alone !!!!!!!!!"
"All people know Sacha Baron Cohen imitate only me. He is stealing my character and giving bad message to USA people. He [Cohen] never contacted me or got my permission … If possible you can help me too for stop this or find good lawyer?”
Yikes. I totally forgot about this guy. There hasn’t been a rip off this bad since they blatantly stole my life story for the movie "Ong-bak". They stole my villages elephant statue, and now me and my muay thai are gonna get it back!
(you can find a mirror for the real Borats website here)
If he’s that p’d off about it, he should have made the movie first. Try the lawyer that that Malawi kid’s father is looking to hire. That is, if you can decipher the oooks, eeeks, pops and squeaks.
Way I see it, the movie Rocky is blatantly based on the life of Chuck Wepner (look it the fuck up before you argue) and he didn’t get anything until very recently, when he and Stallone settled for an “undisclosed sum.” Unless Cohen is willing to do that with Cagri, there’s nothing he can do about it.
Its bull anyway… Borat was *way* before Cagri:
http://celebs.electronicnewsnetwork.com/sacha-cohen/
This guy is great. His English is absolutely FANTASTIC. He wrote, “Who is want to come TURKEY I can invitate ….. She can stay my home …….. I speake turkish , english , rusian , I want to learn other language !” I’d be like, “Slow down there, Potsie. You just might want to get a better grip on English before venturing to other languages…. and before telling people you actually SPEAK English.”
in onor of real Borat nice person I speak english not so good; please like to met frend-wife from america with big bazooms and make sexy:)!!Yes!!Like very much.
Actually, Cohen himself states that the “Borat” character is based on a doctor (who’s name he cannot remember) that he met in southern Russia. In his own words, he claims the doctor was, “…a hystarically funny guy. Albeit unintentionally.” http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056187/bio
Ong-Bak isn’t about the elephant statue. That’s Tom yum goong, and it’s not a statue but an actual elephant.
Ong-Bak is about a statue’s head that’s stolen.
You seem to be thinking of some sort of amalgamation of the 2.
I enjoy your website, figured I might as well help you out on that one before someone else does :)
As Blake has stated, Cohen based his Borat character off a Russian doctor and first surfaced in 1994.
Read the first comment from the slashdot post -
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/1550212
I guess they’ll be making a sequel then. Maybe with the both of them as brothers or something just as stupid.
This story nothing except another Uzbekistan propaganda attack!! Tomorrow we fight back against uzbek turds and bombarding their citys with our MIGHTY catapults! Now my friends we will drink wine made from ferment horse urine and sing Kazakhstan national anthem drinking song very much.
Borat kinda reminds me of Alex Trebek + Jackie Chan + Tom Green. I’m thinking that’s where he drew his inspiration..not some “Russian doctor”.
All this debate about ‘the real Borat’ is interesting and all, but never mind–let’s just take this as validation of what we mindless lazy Americans have known deep in our bigoted hearts all along: that Eastern Europe is just FULL of guys like Borat for real.
Bet Cohen will get a skit out of it, though…
Borat need meet this fellow, Cagri. Both sexy hot and chickies gather all around. Maybe Cagri find happy-happy with chickies Borat find. Maybe Cagri go find Paris Hilton and make fuckee video like he find on computernet, get all famous like Borat and instead not hire lawyer. Course, happy-happy with Paris mean itchy scratchy in peehole week later.
Fuck this guy. Whatever happened to the dancing hamster website?
OK; did anyone read the website all the way to the bottom? I quote - “Tinypic could not handle Mahir’s load” !!!! Now, if that’s not a line from a bad euro-porn movie, I’m not a sarcastic, power-hungry bitch…
haaha hilarious
My friend just showed me this link if you want a Borat “Sexy Time” movie t-shirt …
http://www.MyPartyShirt.com/sexytime.php
Gee, who is this Borat fellow? I’ve never heard of him before. [/huge, dripping cesspool of sarcasm]
Well done Robert! Beat me at my own game…