MUMBAI: Mallika Sherawat will star in Doug McHenry‘s romantic political comedy, Love, Barack, a film that tracks the romance between a Democratic campaign volunteer and her Republican counterpart in the run-up to last year‘s US Presidential election.

The film has Sherawat‘s character Aretha Gupta inspired by Kamala Harris, the attorney general of San Francisco.

Sherawat is presently working on an American accent for the film, which has an all-American cast.

Says Sherawat,"It‘s an amazing role on which I‘m working hard at. One of the great things about western cinema is the diversity of female roles...Kamala is a great inspiration and to play a part inspired by her is an actress‘s dream."

Kamala is the first woman district attorney to be elected in San Francisco and the first African-American elected as district attorney in California. She is also a candidate for the prestigious post of attorney-general of California in 2010.

Love, Barack has been scripted by Gary Goldstein who had earlier co-produced the Julia Roberts-Richard Gere film Pretty Woman.

Incidentally, Sherawat‘s upcoming film, Jennifer Lynch‘s Hisss, has also been delayed for some unknown reason.