HOLLYWOOD - British funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen is to star in a remake of the cult Peter Sellers film The Party.

The Borat star has been tipped to reprise Sellers' role in the 1968 comedy classic.

Cohen will play a bumbling Indian extra named Hrundri V who attends an over-the-top Hollywood bash and totally disrupts everything, according to New York gossip column PageSix.

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