“We need a guy who is going to look totally clueless. He should come across like a complete idiot at a workplace. Someone so stupendously stupid that he can't do even simple math without a school kid helping him. Yet, he should be happy with himself wearing a stupid grin all through,” is probably how the casting discussions began before they zeroed in on the man for the role.
Tusshar has this brilliant “I-am-so-clueless-I-don't-understand-anything” expression every time he's asked to put on his acting face that he is just perfect in this role of a fish out of water — a cartoonist who has to fit into a world of business and economics to prove his love.
To start the story from the beginning, Sahil is a cartoonist. No, wait, he does portraits and sketches. No, wait, he was taught by an artist — a painter. No, wait, he makes stickers for his car. Anyway, you get the point. He probably does it all and is naive enough to think that (a) the word ‘freelancer' is pronounced ‘Free Lancer', and (b) he believes that a Freelancer is someone who should work for free. Hey, at least, he didn't think he would get paid with a free Lancer car for every assignment.
We learn of his happy-go-lucky, hand-to-mouth existence as we see him paying for his milk packet on a daily basis instead of monthly. But like all good men in the Eighties movies, he also shows off his niceness by feeding stray dogs every night, a date he never misses. Looking at this, our heroine Ritu (Amrita Rao) falls in love with the boy and tells him, “Your identity is not that you make no money or can't do math. You are a nice guy” before going on to give him lines from Notting Hill — “I am just a girl asking a boy standing in front of a boy asking him to love her.”
You know how old-world a film is when lovers don't go beyond hugging and holding hands. You know how innocent it is when the girl walks into the guy's house when he's alone to celebrate and party with a bottle of Pepsi and burgers from McDonalds. Welcome back to the good old world of Rajshri Productions. The girl's father is like an Eighties Dad too. He will not allow his daughter to marry the boy if he cannot earn. Challenge Accepted: Maine Pyaar Kiya , so I will also give the test of love, says the boy. And Tusshar fits the role to a T when he has to be the epitome of epic dumbness by signing blank cheques and tell the client he's making a sales pitch to that maximum profit is one of the policies of the company.
It's up to Ram Kapoor and Amrita Rao to give their poorly written roles even a semblance of depth in this predictable film that drags on before Tusshar learns simple arithmetic and the businessman dad learns looking at him that it doesn't take smarts to be successful. A successful dad or sister would do. He quickly instals his intern daughter as the Managing Director of the company. Nepotism rules, baby.
Love U Mr. Kalakaar
Genre: Drama
Director: S. Manasvi
Cast: Tusshar, Amrita Rao, Ram Kapoor, Madhoo
Storyline: A happy-go-lucky cartoonist needs to accept a challenge and run a multi-crore automobile business for three months profitably to prove his love
Bottomline: Yo Rajshri, the Eighties called. They are very upset. And they want their script back.
