Mike Myers, star and writer of the controversial comedy The Love Guru, says that he would "love to be in a Bollywood film".

Talking to the South Asian press in New York last week, he said: "If a Bollywood director wants to hire a 45-year-old Scottish-English-Canadian actor, who does comedy, I’m their man."

The Love Guru

, inspired by new age guru Deepak Chopra, pokes fun at the way the West is co-opting spirituality and not at religion or Hinduism, as some protesting Hindus believed after watching the trailer.?The trailer has some Bollywood style elements, including a dance sequence featuring Jessica Alba wearing an orange sari.?

Myers, who plays Guru Pitka in the film, also said the protesting Hindu groups should have first watched the film.

Myers, the Toronto- raised actor famous for the hugely successful Austin Powers films, said it was closer to being a Bollywood musical than being a parody of James Bond as some have suggested. "You will find in them the same colour palette that you would see in a Bollywood film," he said.?

Given a chance to work in a Bollywood film, Myers said he would love to document the experience for HBO, comparing and contrasting the experience of a working actor there and in Hollywood.

?Myers, who turned to spirituality after his father died some 15 years ago, became close to Chopra after reading his books. The two have appeared in some stand-up events in New York and Toronto where Myers would imitate Chopra’s accent, as he does throughout the film.?Chopra appears as himself in the film. Indian-American actor Manu Narayan plays Guru Pitka’s student