Controversial Albert Brooks

Los Angeles, CA - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Albert Books has new comedy out called Looking for Comedy in the Muslin World. The film was shot in the US, India, and Pakistan and chronicles one man’s search to find out what ‘The MuslimWorld’ finds humorous

'Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World' has been portrayed as a movie that no big studio wants to touch. The studios are scared of the reprisals in the Muslim world, although Brooks says the film does not poke fun at the Muslim world. Instead, it pokes fun at American ignorance of the Muslim world.

Brooks told an American magazine that Sony Studios, for which he made the film, got so worried at the comedy’s title that it decided not to release the movie. That forced Brooks to look for a new distributor But Brooks, who wrote, directed and stars in the movie, contends that "fear is playing a major part in Hollywood production".

Actor Sanjay Madhav, who appears in the movie, commented that, “The controversy has been hyped. It may drive more people to the theatre, but really this is a look at what people have in common versus perceived differences and making light of that. It is Albert poking fun at himself in the end.”

He says he got the idea before American president George W. Bush appointed Karen Hughes as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, charged with countering the negative US image among Muslims.

Brooks says most of the jokes in the movie are aimed at Americans, and there are no religious references at all. The was distributed by Warner Independent this month.

More information can be found at:

www.SanjayMadhav.com