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The Party is a 1968 comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Peter Sellers (in what was his only non-Pink Panther collaboration with Edwards) and Claudine Longet. The film has a very loose structure, and basically serves as a series of set pieces for the comic talents of Sellers. The minimal plot has Sellers playing a well-meaning but hapless Indian man (with some similarity to Inspector Clouseau) being accidentally invited to a showbiz party where he causes havoc. In the film, Sellers' character drives a Morgan threewheeler car as a symbol of his absurdity. Sellers would play another Indian man in his hit film The Millionairess.

The film remains popular among fans of Peter Sellers as one of his most inventive comic roles, much of which was improvised at the time of filming.

The score of The Party was by Henry Mancini, including the song Nothing to Lose.

The plot:

Hrundi V. Bakshi (Sellers) is a seemingly nameless and faceless Hindu movie extra in Hollywood who manages to get noticed during the filming of a movie, but for the wrong reasons. He blows up the desert set of the film he is working on, ruining the entire days filming. The director (Ellis) is fit to be tied and wants him canned immediately. He is somehow sent a party invitation rather than a letter of termination. Bakshi is too dense to know anything is amiss when he shows up at the studio executives modern home and stands out like a fish out of water.

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