A Look at 'Vijay and I'

Like the characters played by Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie” and Robin Williams in “Mrs. Doubtfire,” Bleibtreu’s Will Wilder is an actor whose career has become stuck in neutral, a German emigre with classical training reduced to playing a giant green rabbit on a New York City children’s TV program. Adding insult to injury, he’s about to turn 40, the spark has gone out of his marriage to Julia (Patricia Arquette), and his moody teen daughter, Lily (Catherine Missal), barely acknowledges his existence. Then an incredibly contrived series of coincidences results in Will being mistakenly declared dead — and, like Tom Sawyer before him, he decides to prolong the charade, curious to know what it would feel like to attend his own funeral.

Enter Will’s best friend, Rad (“Community” star Danny Pudi), an Indian-American restaurateur who happens to be seasoned in the art of ethnic deception: Because he’s convinced that real Indians will steal his recipes and open their own competing businesses, his entire wait and kitchen staffs consist of Latinos wearing turbans and sporting singsong accents. With the help of a little brown foundation and a paste-on gray beard … voila! Suddenly, Will is transformed into the stately Sikh banker Vijay Singh.

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