Hrundi V. Bakshi, an accident-prone actor from India, is accidentally put on the guest list for an upcoming party at the home of a Hollywood film producer. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, one thing after another goes wrong with compounding effect.
Acting
Sellers' physical comedy is genuinely athletic, almost balletic destruction
Production
The progressively flooding mansion set is a masterclass in escalating production design
Direction
Blake Edwards lets scenes breathe — the ostrich bit goes on forever and earns it
Director
Blake Edwards
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The entire film was improvised from a 56-page outline — no finished script existed. Sellers and Edwards created set pieces and let the camera roll.
The brownface is indefensible, but Sellers intended Hrundi as sympathetic subversion of Hollywood's racist casting — he wanted to play an Indian actor rejected for being 'too ethnic' then showing up anyway.
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