Shekhar Suman wears director's hat for Heartless

Actor Shekhar Suman is looking forward to wearing the director's hat for Heartless — a medical thriller featuring his son Adhyayan in the lead. "I am looking at starting the shooting in May this year. The film has Adhyayan with Giselli Monteiro. It's a medical thriller," Suman said. "The film talks about anaesthesia awareness. There are times when a patient is unconscious but can still feel the pain. It is about a guy who undergoes heart transplant, and even under anaesthesia, he can hear everything — a conspiracy — but he can't do anything because his body is paralysed for that moment. "How that conspiracy and his helplessness change his life forever is what the story is about," he added. Until filming begins, the 50-plus actor, who defies age with his fit frame, charm and enthusiasm, is back to entertain audiences with his cult show Movers & Shakers. "I think it's a great thing if I look young, but I think it's just because I don't think too much about age. I just take care of my food, I go to the gym. That's all," said Suman. Besides social activist Anna Hazare as the special guest on the premiere episode of Movers & Shakers, which will be broadcast from March 12, Suman hopes to give a "red carpet welcome" to all those in the news for "engineering scams". "I think all these people who have recently been involved in scams will be especially welcome on the show, so that we can ask them how did they ever think of such scams... It's amazing how they could think of the ideas. So as a common man, I'd be curious to know," said Suman. The show will have him taking humorous digs at topical issues and people, with oodles of entertainment. Suman, who recently resigned from the Congress party, says it was imperative for him to bid adieu to politics for the time-being. "I had to be apolitical for a show like Movers & Shakers because if I am associated with any party, I would be restricted in what I have to say. Now I have no such hassles," he said.