Yeah, we can see how this Borat stunt didn’t end well

A GROUP of men on holiday have landed in extremely hot water in Kazakhstan for a stupid stunt that played homage to the controversial film Borat.

AROUND the time Borat was released in 2006, who among us weren’t guilty of responding to everything with “very naaice” or dressing up in his eye-boggling swimsuit for a laugh.

While we were all cracking up at Sacha Baron Cohen’s hit mockumentary, the people of Kazakhstan — the homeland of the film’s fictional cental character — weren’t laughing. They found the whole thing deeply offensive.

So it’s little wonder that six tourists have been detained in the capital Astana for taking the whole Borat joke way too far.

In this image made available by informburo.kz, on Wednesday Nov. 15, 2017 shows a group of Czech tourists dressed in swimsuits made famous by TV and film character Borat in Atana, Friday Nov. 10, 2017. The group of six Czech tourists who visited Kazakhstan dressed up in the skimpy swimsuits have reportedly been detained by authorities in the central Asian country's capital Astana. Sporting lime green "mankinis" and black wigs, the men had hoped to take a picture in front of the "I Love Astana" sign. But local police detained them on Friday and fined them 22,500 tenge ($68) each, according to the Kazakh news website informburo.kz. (informburo.kz, via AP)

The men, from the Czech Republic, were detained by authorities after they were caught wearing Borat’s lime green, G-string mankini and curly black wigs while trying to take a group photo in front of a “I love Astana” sign.

Local police, who did not think the men’s stunt was nearly as funny as they thought it was, detained the men and fined them 22,500 tenge, or $90, each for minor hooliganism.

Actor Sacha Baron Cohen in scene from film 'Borat : Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'. f/l movies thumbs up beaches mankini ? beachwear

Borat, the socially inept, racist, Pamela Anderson-obsessed newsreader portrayed by Cohen in the film, did not go down well in Kazakhstan upon its release.

The film, which had the extended title of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, caused a huge amount of offence, with Kazakh people furious their country had been portrayed as backward and degenerate.

British actor comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in scene from film "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"

But the country’s Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov later conceded the controversial film did wonders to boost tourism to the little-known Central Asian nation.

“With the release of this film, the number of visas issued by Kazakhstan grew tenfold,’’ local news agencies quoted Mr Kazykhanov as telling a session of Parliament in 2012.

“I am grateful to Borat for helping attract tourists to Kazakhstan.”