"Avatar" thesp Laz Alonso and Bollywood's Mallika Sherawat will star in the political romantic comedy "Love, Barack." "New Jack City" producer Doug McHenry will direct from a script by Gary Goldstein ("If You Only Knew").
Govind Menon and William Keenan will produce through their U.S.-Indian shingle Nuclear Mango alongside Split Image Pictures' Vikram Singh. Randolf Turrow ("Man in the Chair") will co-produce.
Sherawat will play a volunteer coordinator for Barack Obama's campaign in the run-up to the 2009 presidential election. A month before Election Day, she falls in love with her Republican counterpart (Alonso), who works with the local John McCain office.
Other cast members include Ruby Dee ( "American Gangster"), Gerry Bednob ("The 40-Year-Old Virgin") and Loretta Devine ("Grey's Anatomy").
Nuclear Mango is in post-production on helmer Jennifer Lynch's "Hisss," starring Sherawat and Irrfan Khan ("Slumdog Millionaire").
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